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Catherine M. Otto, MD

Professor of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine

Catherine Otto is the J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. She served as Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program for 20 years and currently is Director of the Heart Valve Clinic. She was Editor-in-Chief of Heart, an international journal of cardiology, from 2014-2024. She is a core member of the UW Medicine Echocardiography Team and has clinics for patients with valvular heart disease and a cardiogenetics clinic for patients with aortopathy.

Dr. Otto is recognized as an expert on calcific aortic valve disease. Dr. Otto’s research has transformed our understanding of this disease process, showing that it is an active disease process that may be amenable to medical therapy, rather than being an inevitable consequence of aging. She received for the 2011 American College of Cardiology Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical Domain) for this research. Dr. Otto has received numerous other awards including the 2008 UW School of Medicine 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2008 Award for Excellence in Mentoring Women and Minorities, the UW Medical Center 2011 Teamwork, Leadership and Caring Award, and the 2020 American Society of Echocardiography Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and European Society of Cardiology.

Dr. Otto is the author of several cardiology books: The Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography (7th Edition, 2024), The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography (7th Edition, 2024), Valvular Heart Disease (5th Edition, 2020, co-edited by Robert O. Bonow, MD), Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation with Bernard Prendergast and Simon Redwood (2023), Intraoperative Echocardiography and Interventional Echocardiography (2nd Edition, 2018, with Don Oxorn) and the Echocardiography Review Guide (4rd Edition with 3 co-authors). She also is one of the Cardiology Editor-in-Chiefs for the online medical textbook Up-to-Date.

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