Victor Froelicher, MD, FACC
Cardiologist
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Staff Cardiologist, Palo Alto VA Medical Center
Director, Department of Electrocardiology, Palo Alto VA Medical Center

Dr. Froelicher is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and Director of the ECG and exercise testing laboratories at Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, California. He serves on the editorial boards of The American Heart Journal, Cardiology, Chest, Journal of Noninvasive Cardiology, and other leading publications. In addition, Dr. Froelicher is a former Chairman of the American Heart Association Subcommittee on Cardiac Rehabilitation and a founding fellow of the American Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. Dr. Froelicher has been active on the writing team for guidelines on exercise testing for AHA, ACC and ACSM. He is among those chosen for the Best Doctors Book, 1995.

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in 1967, Victor F. Froelicher obtained his internship and internal medicine training at Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center. He then pursued his fellowship in cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with T.J. Reeves. While at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Dr. Froelicher published numerous works related to exercise physiology and early screening for coronary artery disease in healthy aviators. His angiographic and follow up studies of aviators were critical to the understanding of silent ischemia and the application of Baysian statistics and predictive modeling to diagnostic tests.

After eleven years of service in the U.S. Air Force, he joined the faculty at the University of California at San Diego. At UCSD he was the principal investigator of a randomized trial of cardiac rehabilitation called PERFEXT. In 1980, he was the co-founding editor for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.

From 1984 to 1992, Dr. Froelicher was Chief of Cardiology at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Assistant Chief at the University of California, Irvine. At the Long Beach VA, he performed the largest outcomes study in the VA of coronary artery disease. He was the co-principal investigator of a Veterans Affairs cooperative multicenter study of exercise testing and angiography called QUEXTA.

In addition to writing several textbooks, Dr. Froelicher has participated in developing exercise testing guidelines for numerous organizations including the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine. He has co-authored over 200 papers, serves on numerous editorial boards and reviews for most of the mayor medical journals.

In 1995 he was chosen for the "Best Doctors in the U.S." book and since 1997 has been chosen as a best doctor in the "Pacific Region" and in Silicon Valley. He is cardiologist to the Stanford athletes and participates in the Stanford Sports medicine program. He maintains an educational web page at www.cardiology.org.