Board Members

Michael W. Rich, M.D.

Board of Directors, Gout & Uric Acid Education Society

Michael W. Rich is associate professor of medicine and cardiology at the Washington University School of Medicine, and director of the Cardiac Rapid Evaluation Unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition, he is a board member of the Gout & Uric Acid Education Society.

Dr. Rich's primary research focus has been the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in the aging population. He has participated in numerous investigator-initiated and multi-center clinical trials involving elderly cardiac patients, and he has published extensively on heart failure disease management, coronary heart disease and cardiovascular risk reduction in the elderly. Dr. Rich is an internationally recognized expert in geriatric cardiovascular disease.

He currently serves on the editorial boards of numerous publications, including the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, American Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Journal of Cardiac Failure. Dr. Rich is a past-president of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology, and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and American Geriatrics Society.

Dr. Rich received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, and a medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency and cardiac fellowship at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri.