May 15th, 2012
Returning to Detroit, William O’Neill Heads to Henry Ford Hospital
Larry Husten, PHD
Interventional cardiology leader William O’Neill is leaving the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to become the medical director of the new Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The new center will focus on new minimally invasive treatments for heart failure and heart valve disease.
Prior to going to Miami in 2006, where he had been the executive dean for Research, Research Training and Innovative Medicine, O’Neill had spent 20 years in the Detroit area as the director of the division of cardiovascular medicine at William Beaumont Hospital. Prior to that he was the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the University of Michigan.
O’Neill told the Detroit Free Press that he considers research in heart failure and valve problems to be his new career passion. “I’ve come to realize I love doing it,” said O’Neill.