Bertram Pitt

Professor Emeritus,
Department of Internal Medicine,
University of Michigan

Bertram Pitt

Bertram Pitt is a professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Michigan, School of Medicine. Dr Pitt obtained his MD degree from the University of Basel in Switzerland. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and remained on the faculty until he left to direct the division of cardiology at the University of Michigan. He is currently chairman of the steering committee of the NHLBI TOPCAT trial; co-chairman of the Emphasis-HF trial, chairman of Break- DHF, co-chairman of STOP-CKD, co-chairman of Exceed, co-chairman of Escape-SHF and Escape-DH F, chairman of a study evaluating the role of an aldostereone synthase inhibitor in patients with HF and is a member of the executive committee of the Accomplish trial. He has been awarded the James B. Herrick Award by the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association and has been elected to the Society of Scholars of the Johns Hopkins University.