After receiving his A.B. from Harvard and his M.D. from UCSF, Dr. Christopher Kramer completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania. His first faculty appointment was at Allegheny General Hospital, MCP/Hahnemann School of Medicine where he directed the cardiology fellowship program. In 1999, he moved to the University of Virginia where he was named the George A. Beller/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Chief of the Cardiovascular Division in 2019. Dr. Kramer’s principal research interest has been in the application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) to the cardiovascular system in translational and clinical studies and he has published over 320 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books, and over 100 book chapters, editorials, and reviews in the area of left ventricular remodeling and myocardial viability, atherosclerotic plaque imaging, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). He is co-principal investigator of a 2755 patient, 44-site, NHLBI-funded U01 international registry study of HCM and he directed a NIBIB-funded cardiovascular imaging T32 fellowship training program for 2 decades. He is presently the Immediate Past President of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), having served as President from 2025-26 and had previously served as Treasurer and Vice President. He has served as President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), Chair of the Imaging Council of the ACC, and member and chair of the Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences NIH study section. He is a member of the editorial boards of Circulation, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, and Vascular Medicine, and was previously Executive Editor of JACC Cardiovascular Imaging and Associate Editor for Imaging at JACC. He is also member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of University Cardiologists, and the American Association of Physicians. In 2015 he won the Gold Medal of the SCMR and in 2021 was named Distinguished Mentor by the ACC.