DOM Retirement: John Douglas Jr. MD, Division of Cardiology

Please join the department in congratulating Dr. John Douglas (Division of Cardiology) on his retirement. Douglas retired on December 1, 2022, after spending more than forty years of his career at Emory University and Emory Healthcare.

Douglas originally joined Emory University to pursue a cardiology fellowship. He then subsequently joined the Emory University School of Medicine faculty and the Emory Clinic, where he has practiced invasive and interventional cardiology. In 1980, Dr. Douglas was a member of the team that performed the first coronary angioplasty at Emory University Hospital, and in 1987 the first coronary stent in the United States. He was a partner of the late Andreas Gruentzig, the inventor of coronary angioplasty, and participated in the development of current coronary angioplasty and stent techniques.

He is a Fellow and prior member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention, and is currently listed in Castle Connolly Guide of America’s Top Doctors, Atlanta’s Top Doctors, and The Best Doctors in America.