Dr. Paul Heidenreich is associate professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine) and health research and policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a practicing non-invasive cardiologist and directs the VA's Chronic Heart Failure Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, a center whose goal is to improve heart failure care throughout the VA system. Dr. Heidenreich has an extensive background in health services research in the areas of evidence-based medicine, quality improvement, and cost-effectiveness research.

Dr. Heidenreich received his MD from the University of Chicago, and his MS in health services research at Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed an internship at the University of California at Los Angeles, and a residency at the University of California at San Francisco. He completed a cardiovascular imaging fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute University of California at San Francisco, a clinical fellowship in cardiology at the University of California at San Francisco and a research fellowship at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research at Stanford University.