Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA, FASPC, FSCCT

Dr. Roger S. Blumenthal is The Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Blumenthal graduated with honors from the Johns Hopkins University. He received his medical degree from Cornell Medical College, where he was awarded the Weiss Prize for Excellence in Clinical Medicine. He did his Internal Medicine Osler Service residency on the Longcope Firm and Cardiology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins before joining the Hopkins Cardiology faculty. Dr. Blumenthal was the 2019 recipient of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Arthur S. Agatston Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Award for his work in selective use of cardiac CT to improve cardiovascular risk assessment. In 2025, Dr. Blumenthal received the Joseph Stokes, III, MD Pioneer in Prevention Award from the American Society of Preventive Cardiology. In 2026, he was the recipient of the American Heart Association’s Council on Clinical Cardiology Distinguished Achievement Award. His principal clinical and research interests involve 1) strategies to improve cardiovascular risk assessment to identify those adults at elevated risk for their age and those at very low risk of future cardiovascular disease & 2) the optimal management of atherosclerotic vascular disease. He is an expert in the pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Blumenthal was the principal developer of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. He has co-authored more than 600 original research publications and more than 500 review articles & editorials dealing with many aspects of cardiovascular disease prevention and management. Together with Dr. Mariell Jessup, he was the co-chair of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline Task Force subcommittee that oversaw the updates of all of the Prevention related guidelines (Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Risk Assessment) from 2014-2019. Dr. Blumenthal & Dr. Donna Arnett were co-chairs of the 2019 ACC/Heart Association Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Guideline. He was a co-author the 2018 Heart Association/ACC/Multi-society Guideline on Cholesterol Management and the senior author on the 2019 Heart Association/ACC Special Report on the Use of Risk Assessment Tools to Guide Decision Making in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Blumenthal served as Co-Chair with Dr. Pam Morris of the 2026 ACC/Heart Association/Multisociety Dyslipidemia Clinical Practice Guideline. He was co-editor-in-chief of the textbook Preventive Cardiology – A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease and the ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology. Dr. Blumenthal is very proud of helping to propel the careers of many leaders in Preventive Cardiology such as Drs. Khurram Nasir, Michael Blaha, Seth Martin, J. Bill McEvoy, Chiadi Ndumele, Erin Michos, Ty Gluckman, Samia Mora, Seamus Whelton, Parag Joshi, Ron Blankstein, Garima Sharma, Lili Barouch, Ramzi Dudum, Alex Razavi, Allison Peng, Sohail Zahid, and Jelani Grant. Dr. Blumenthal is a highly cited researcher with an h-index of 144 on Google Scholar. Dr. Blumenthal received the Johns Hopkins David M. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award. In 2021, The Johns Hopkins Osler Internal Medicine house staff voted him the Outstanding Faculty Mentor. The following year, he received the Department of Medicine Task Force on Women’s Academic Careers in Medicine Susan M. MacDonald, MD Sponsorship Award for promoting career advancement of faculty and fellows. Dr. Blumenthal is also a member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association and the Association of University Cardiologists.