Center of Innovation on Disability & Rehab Research (CINDRR)
David Winchester, MD, MS, FACP
Career Development Awardee
Dr. David Winchester is an associate professor in the UF Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and a staff cardiologist and researcher at the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System (NF/SGVHS). He practices general cardiology with a focus on noninvasive imaging including echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and cardiac computed tomography (CT). Dr. Winchester has active research projects on the evaluation of chest pain in the emergency department, appropriate use of cardiac CT, and serves as a co-investigator of the ISCHEMIA trial . He received his BS in microbiology and BA in sociology at the University of Florida. In 2005, he received his MD at the University of South Florida. After medical school, Dr. Winchester completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia and then returned to UF for his cardiology fellowship and MS in clinical and translational science. He has received several awards for his research and teaching and has served in national leadership roles with the American College of Cardiology, the American Medical Association, and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.