Spencer B. King, MD is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine. He is a co-author of JACC’s Imaging Cases in Cardiovascular Intervention.

Dr. King received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. After an internship at Walter Reed Army Hospital, he performed a residency and fellowship at Emory University Hospital. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology.

Dr. King worked in numerous academic capacities at Emory University between 1972 and 2000, including professor of medicine, director of interventional cardiology, and director of the cardiac cath lab at Emory University Hospital. A pioneer in cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography, and interventional cardiology, Dr. King was co-developer of the multi-purpose technique of coronary arteriography and has directed invasive and interventional cardiology training for more than 150 cardiology fellows.

Dr. King is a past president of the American College of Cardiology—the first interventionalist to hold that position. He also served as president of the Georgia affiliate of the American Heart Association, president of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, chairman of the scientific advisory board at AiHeart Medical Technologies, and the first Chair of the Interventional Cardiology Boards of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. King has published more than 600 papers on cardiology and has served on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Circulation, European Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and The American Journal of Cardiology. He recently completed a 10-year tenure as editor of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

His research interest has been in the area of restenosis prevention, having been a developer of radiation therapy to block restenosis, as well as new device development, evaluation of therapeutic approaches to cardiovascular disease and preventive cardiology. Honors include Master of the American College of Cardiology, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the TCT, the Mikamo Lecture and Honorary International Fellow of the Japan Circulation Society, the Bishop Lecture of the American College of Cardiology, the ETHICA Award of the European Society of Cardiology, the Jesse E. Edwards Lecture of the American Heart Association, and Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the Medical College of Georgia and Mercer University.