JAMES A. ARROWOOD, MD
A former mechanical engineer, Dr. Arrowood has practiced medicine for more than 20 years and has been with VCU Medical Center since 1984. An Asheville, N.C. native, Dr. Arrowood graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a degree in mechanical engineering and joined the U.S. Navy for two years and served at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Engineering Center. He then returned to school for his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. While pursuing this degree, he served as research assistant and then director of the Artificial Heart Research Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Arrowood received his medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1980. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he also served as Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Co-director of Ambulatory Medical Clinics. Dr. Arrowood arrived at VCU’s MCV campus in 1984 for his fellowship training in cardiology and then cardiovascular research. In 1987, he became Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 1997. He has held a joint appointment at the McGuire V. A. Medical Center since 1987 until recently. He also serves as Director of VCU’s A.D. Williams Cardiology Clinic, Associate Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center at VCU and is an affiliate graduate faculty member with the VCU School of Graduate Studies.
Dr. Arrowood’s research interests include endothelial function in atherosclerosis, the effect of estrogen, progesterone, and antioxidants on endothelial function in peripheral vessels in women, and reflex control of the circulation and the role of cardiac afferents. He has received grant funding from the American Heart Association National Center as well as Mid-Atlantic Affiliates. Publications include 25 journal articles, more than 45 abstracts and two book chapters. Dr. Arrowood has made numerous invited presentations at national meetings, and serves as scientific reviewer for the American Journal of Cardiology and the Southern Medical Journal.
A fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Arrowood is also a fellow of the American Heart Association’s Council on Clinical Cardiology and a member of the AHA’s Council on Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. His clinical expertise includes transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography and valvular heart disease. He has served as faculty advisor for numerous medical students and master’s candidates and as a mentor on many student and cardiology fellow research projects. His service to the community includes participating in a medical mission to Jamaica in 1994 as part of the United Methodist Church Mission Services as well as lecturing for community groups on risk factor reduction for stroke and coronary disease.
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