B. Hadley Wilson MD MACC. Executive Vice Chair Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute or Atrium Health President, Medical Staff, Carolinas Medical Center, Professor of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Immediate, Past President, American College of Cardiology 

 

Personal Information 

B. Hadley Wilson, MD, FACC , 641 Colville Road, Charlotte, NC 28207, (704) 564-8044 

Certifications 

American Board of Internal Medicine 1984                                                                                                                                                   

American Board of Internal Medicine--Cardiovascular Disease 1987 

American Board of Internal Medicine--Interventional Cardiology 2000, 2010, 2020,2024 

                                                                                                             

Medical License, State of North Carolina                                                

Medical License, State of South Carolina 

Medical License, State of Tennessee 

Nuclear License, State of North Carolina   

Clinical Outcomes and Practicality of Transferring Patients Immediately to Originating Hospitals after Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-A Retrospective Study.  S. Kamaraj, ML Firdaus, R Norfarahdina, AM Abdul Muizz, A Asri Ranga, Timothy D Henry, Hadley Wilson, LSK Glendon, AG Abdul Raqib, AG Abd Kahar.  Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions or Early View.  2024 November  15.  doi.org/10.1002/ccd.31290. 

 

Improving STEMI Management Internationally.  Initial Report of the American College of Cardiology-Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative.  Cesar J Herrera, Benny J Levenson, Angela Natcheva, Ana Corina Lucca, Kelly Olsson, Kyoko Miki, Alan Fong, James G Jollis, Alyssa McCormick, B Hadley Wilson.  JACC:  Advances. Vol. 4, No. 1, 2025 Jan.  doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv2024.101438 

 

Levenson, B; Herrera,C; Wilson, BH. New ACC Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative: Improving STEMI Care Worldwide. JACC, 2020 Vol. 75, No. 13: 1605-1608 

Stouffer, GA; Abernethy,WB; Zidar, JP; Wilson,BH. Improving Patient Access to Medication: An ACC Chapter, Section Success Story. JACC 2019 Vol. 74, No. 24: 3066-3068 

Wilson, BH; Alexanderson E; Jollis J. Scaling STEMI Care Internationally: ACC's Global STEMI Quality Improvement Initiative. JACC, Vol. 72, No. 20; 2018 

 

Studnek, J; Infinger, A; Wilson, BH; Niess, G; et al; Decreased Time From 911 Call to PCI Among Patients Experiencing STEMI Results in a Decreased One-Year Mortality; Prehospital Emergency Care; https://doi.org/10.1080/10903127.2018.1447621; 29 Mar 2018 

 

Wilson, BH. State of the States Leadership Page: Journal of the American College of Cardiology; February 2018 

Wilson BH. Current State of Public Reporting. Journal of American College of Cardiology Leadership Page. 2017 December 5; 70(22):2831 

 

Wilson BH, Wilson J, Ryan F. Tort Reform and the Cardiologist. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. July 11, 2017; 70(2) DOI: I0.1016/j.jacc.2017.05.054 

 

Roettig M, Monk L, Doerfler S, Berger P, Corbett C, Fordyce C, Henry T, O'Brien P, Jollis J, AI-Khalidi H, Wilson BH, Granger C. Impact of Regional Systems of Care on Disparities of Care Among Females and Blacks Presenting with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017;6:c007122: pub. 24 October2017; doi:10.1161/JAHA. 117.007122 

 

Wilson BH. Cardiologists Without Borders: Insight from Global Medical Outreach Missions.Journal of American College of Cardiology. 7 May 2017;69(18): DOI: I0.1016/j.jacc.2017.03.570 

 

Leon MB, Nikolsky E, Cutlip DE, Mauri L, Liberman H, Wilson BH, Patterson J, Moses J, Kandzari DE.  Improved Late Clinical Safety with Zotarolimus-Eluting Stents Compared with Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Patients with DeNovo Coronary Lesions.  J Am Col Cardiol Intv. 3:1043-50; 2010 

 

Brodie B, Wilson H, Stuckey T, Nussbaum, Laurent S, Bradshaw B, Humphrey A, Metzger C, Hermiller J, Krainin F, Juk S, Cheek B, Duffy P, Simonton C.  “Late “Catch-Up” in Target Vessel Revascularization with DES vs BMS in SVG intervention:  Two Year Results from the STENT Group.”  TCT, San Francisco, CA September 2009 

 

Simonton CA, Brodie BR, Wilson BH, Haber R, Kowalchuk G, Rinaldi M, Cedarholm J, Humphrey A, Laurent S, The Sanger Clinic, PA, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC et al.  AngioJet Experience from the Multi-Center STENT Registry.  The Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2006;18 Suppl C:22-23C 

 

Simonton CA, Brodie BR, Wilson, BH, The Sanger Clinic, Carolinas Heart Institute, NC, University of North Carolina, Moses H. Cone Memorial, Greensboro, NC.  Drug-Eluting Stents for emerging treatment strategies in complex lesions.  Rev Cardiovasc Med. 2005;6 (suppl 1):S38-S47.

 

Simonton CA, Leon MB, Baim DS, Hinohara T, Kent KM, Bersin RM, Wilson BH, Mintz GS, Fitzgerald PJ, Yock PG, Popma JJ, Ho Kalon KL, Cutlip DE, Senerchia C, Kuntz RE. 'Optimal' Directional Coronary Atherectomy ‑ Final Results of the Optimal Atherectomy Restenosis Study (OARS). Circulation. 1998; 97:332‑339 

 

Bersin RM, Elliott CM, Elliott AV, Fedor JM, Gallagher JJ, Jordan L, Simonton CA, Svenson RH, Wilson BH, Zimmern SH. Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Registry: Report of the First 1,001 Patients. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 31:1‑7, 1994 

 

Forman MV, Perry JM, Wilson BH, Verani MS, Kaplan PR, Shawl FA, Friesinger GC. Demonstration of Myocardial Reperfusion Injury in Humans: Results of a Pilot Study Utilizing Acute Coronary Angioplasty with Perfluorochemical in Anterior Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 18:911‑918, 1991 

 

Wilson BH. The Technique of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty. CARDIAC SURGERY: State of the Art Reviews, 5:275‑285, 1991 

 

Byrd BF, Shelton ME, Wilson BH, Schillig S. Infective perivalvular abscess of the aortic ring: relationship of echocardiographic features and clinical course. The American Journal of Cardiology, 66:102‑105, 1990 

 

Pressley JC, Severance HW, Raney, MP, McKinnis RA, Smith MW, Hindman MC, Wilson BH, Wagner GS. A comparison of paramedic versus basic emergency medical care of patients at high and low risk during acute myocardial infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 12:1555‑1561, 1988 

 

Forman MB, Puett DW, Wilson BH, Bostick D, Bingham SE, Virmani R, Friesinger GC. Beneficial long‑term effect of intracoronary perfluorochemical on infarct size and ventricular function in a canine reperfusion model. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 9:1982‑1990, 1987 

 

Puett, DW, Forman MB, Cates CU, Wilson BH, Hande KR, Friesinger GC, Virmani R. Oypurinol limits myocardial stunning but does not reduce infarct size after reperfusion. Circulation 76:678‑686, 1987 

 

Forman MB, Wilson BH, Sheller JR, Kopelman HA, Vaughn WK, Virmani R, Friesinger GC. Right ventricular hypertrophy is an important determinant of right ventricular infarction complicating acute inferior left ventricular infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 10:1180‑1187, 1987 

 

Forman MEB, Kopelman HA, Wilson BH, Friesinger GC, Virmani R. Right ventricular myocardial infarction: A review. Cardiovascular Reviews and Reports. February, 1986 

 

Kopelman HA, Forman M111, Wilson BH, Kolodgie FD, Smith RF, Friesinger GC, Virmani R. Right ventricular myocardial infarction in patients with chronic lung disease: possible role of right ventricular hypertrophy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 5:1302‑1307, 1985 

 

Wilson BH, Stein R. The management of anticoagulation during potential bleeding episodes in patients with prosthetic heart valves. Internal Medicine 5:57‑64, 1984 

 

Wilson BH, Johnson D. The jugular foramen syndrome; a complication of metastatic cancer of the prostate. Southern Medical Journal 77:92‑97, 1984 

 

Wilson BH, Severance HW, Raney MY, McKinnis RA, Hindman MC, Pressley JC, Wagner GS. Out‑of‑hospital management of cardiac arrest by basic emergency medical technicians. American Journal of Cardiology 53:68‑70, 1984 

 

Pressley JC, Wilson BH, Severance HW, Raney MP, McKinnis RA, Smith MW, Hindman MC, Wagner GS. Basic emergency medical care of patients with acute myocardial infarction: initial pre‑hospital complications. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 4:487492, 1984 

 

Pressley JC, Raney MP, Wilson BH, Severance HW, Wagner GS. Assessment of out‑of‑hospital resuscitation. AM J EmergMed 2(3):215‑216, 1984 

 

 

Abstracts 

Benny J. Levenson, Cesar Herrera, Kelly Olsson, Angela Natcheva, Kyoko Miki, Alyssa McCormick, B. Hadley Wilson. Worldwide ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Care: One Year Results  of the American College of Cardiology-Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative. Late Breaking Clinical Trials. ACC.21 Monday, May 17, 2021 

 

Laxmi S. Mehta, B. Hadley Wilson, Edward Fry, Anne Rzeszut, Jane Linderbaum, Jennifer Shreibati, Jennifer Mieres, Lee Goldberg, Stephanie Mitchell, Daniel Murphy. Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Cardiovascular Workforce: The ACC 2020 Well Being Study. Late Breaking Clinical Trials. ACC.21 Sunday, May 16, 2021 

 

Zachary K. Wegermann, Shuang Li, Nathaniel Smilowitz, Hani Jneid, B. Hadley Wilson, Tracy Y. Wang, Jacqueline E.Tamis-Holland. Incidence and Timing of Post-Infarction Ventricular Arrhythmias in a Contemporary ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Population. Circulation. 142(Suppl_3):A16678, November 17, 2020 

 

Laxmi Mehta, Pamela Douglas, Andrew Miller, B. Hadley Wilson, Anne Rzeszut, Daniel Murphy, Akshay Khandewhal, Garima Sharma, Jennifer Mieres, Dipti Itchhaporia, C. Michael Valentine, Stephanie Mitchell, Scott Lilly. Practice Factors Affecting Cardiologists’ Wellbeing: The American College of Cardiology 2019 Well Being Study. Late Breaking Clinical Trials- Featured Clinical Research I. ACC.20 Saturday, March 28, 2020 

Michael Zeitouni; James G. Jollis; Shannon M. Doerfler; Mayme L. Roettig; Hussein R Al-Khalidi; Timothy D. Henry; B. Hadley Wilson; Khaled M. Ziada; Christopher B. Granger.  Catheterization Laboratory Activation time is a new metric for timely reperfusion of inter-hospital Transfer STEMI Patients in The Accelerator-2 Demonstration Project.  Circulation; AHA.2019 

 

Wilson BH, Humphrey A, Haber RH, Downey WE, Cedarholm JC, Kowalchuk GJ, Rinaldi MJ, Collier KM, Pye PM, Miller DA, Sarafin J, Ellerbe M, Garvey JL.  Air Transports in the Age of STEMI System Regionalization.  JACC 57:118, 2011 

 

O’Neill WW, Kleiman N, Dixon S, Maini B, Mulukutle S, Henriques J, Dzavik V, Revenaugh J, Wilson BH, Benali K, Ohman M, University of Miami, Miami FL.  PROTECT II:  A Prospective Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Intraortic Balloon Pump vs Impella for Hemodynamic Support during High Risk PCI.  Presented ACC April 2011 

 

O’Neill W, Kleiman N, Henriques J, Dixon S, Massaro J, Ghiu L, Maini B, Mulukutla S, Dzavik V, Revenaugh J, Wilson H, Benali K, Ohman.  PROTECT II – Prospective Multicenter Randomized Trial Comparing IMPELLA to IABP in High Rish PCI:  90 Day Results. Presented SCAI   May 2011 

 

Wilson BH, Humphrey A, Haber RH, Downey WE, Cedarholm JC, Kowalchuk GJ, Rinaldi MJ, Collier KM, Pye PM, Miller DA, Sarafin J,  Blackwell T, Garvey JL.  Achieving First Door-to-Balloon Times of 90 Minutes for Transfer ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.  JACC 55:A109.E101S; 2010 

 

Brodie B, Wilson H, Stuckey T, Nussbaum, Laurent S, Bradshaw B, Humphrey A, Metzger C, Hermiller J, Krainin F, Juk S, Cheek B, Duffy P, Simonton C.  “Late “Catch-Up” in Target Vessel Revascularization with DES vs BMS in SVG intervention:  Two Year Results from the STENT Group.”  TCT, San Francisco, CA September 2009 

 

Wilson BH, Humphrey, AD, Cedarholm JC, Elliott CM, Haber RH, Kowalchuk GJ, Rinaldi MJ, Simonton CA, Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, NC.  Drug-Eluting Stents are no better than Bare Metal in Vein Grafts:  Results from the Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group.  Journal of the American College of Cardiology February 2007 

 

Wilson BH, Garvey JL, Collier KM, Pye PM, Lail A, Humphrey AD, Blackwell T, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.  A Rapid Response Trauma Approach Drops Reperfusion Time in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.  Presented at ACC 2007 

 

American College of Cardiology, New Orleans, LA.  “ Drug-Eluting Stents are No Better than Bare Metal in Vein Grafts: Results from the Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group”.  Oral Presentation March 24-27, 2007 

 

Simonton C, Wilson H, Kowalchuk G, Haber R, Cedarholm J, Rinaldi M, Hermiller J, Stuckey T, Metzger C, Humphrey A, Laurent S, Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, NC et al.  Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis: First Large, Multicenter Prospective Report of Treatment Strategies and Clinical Outcomes in the U.S. from the Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group.  American Journal of Cardiology, October 2006 

 

Wilson H, Cedarholm J, Elliott C, Haber R, Kowalchuk G, Rinaldi M, Humphrey A, Simonton C, Sanger Clinic, Charlotte, NC, et al.  Late Clinical Outcomes of Drug-Eluting Stents Compared to Bare Metal Stents for Saphenous Vein Graft Disease:  Experience from the Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group.  American Journal of Cardiology 97(Suppl 7A): 31H, October 2005 

 

Wilson, BH, Cedarholm JC, Elliott CM, Haber RH, Kowalchuk GJ, Rinaldi MS, Humphrey AD, Simonton SA, The Sanger Clinic, Charlotte, NC, R. Stuart Dickson Institute for Health Studies, Charlotte, NC.  Superiority of Drug-Eluting stents compared to Bare Metal Stent for Saphenous Vein Graft Disease:  Experience from the Strategic Transcather Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group.  TCT-449  The American Journal of Cardiology TCT Abstracts, October 2005;V96 (Suppl 7A) 176H 

 

SCAI, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.  “Efficacy of Drug-Eluting Stents Compared to Bare Metal Stents for Saphenous Vein Graft Disease:  Early Experience from the STENT Group”.  Poster presentation May 5-6, 2005 

 

Wilson B, Young J, Cedarholm J, Haber R, Kowalchuk G, Humphrey A, Rinaldi M, Simonton C, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC, et al.  Efficacy of Drug-Eluting Stents for Saphenous Vein Graft Disease:  Early Experience from the Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group.  Cardiovascular Interventions 65(1):126, May 2005 

 

Simonton CA, Brodie BR, Cheek B, Hasan-Jones J, Draining F, McPherson J, Powell N, Quam M, Rinaldi MJ, San G, Walpole H, Wilson BH, Sanger Clinic, PA, Charlotte, NC, et al.  Subacute Stent Thrombosis following Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation:  Results from the Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Group.  American Journal of Cardiology 94(6): 214E, September 2004 

 

Simonton C, Harring C, Chadwick D, Kowalchuk G, Wilson H, Bersin R, Haber R, Cedarholm J, Elliott, Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina.  Reduced bolus dosing of Abciximab during percutaneous coronary intervention using rapid platelet function assay-guided therapy.  The American Journal of Cardiology  TCT Abstracts, September 11, 2001 

 

Bilodeau L, Schreiber T, Hilton JD, Rosenblum S, Mehta S, Mclvor M, Krajcer Z, Wilson BH, Senerchia C, Beck LD, Pedan A. The Wallstent in Native Coronary Arteries (WIN) Multicenter Randomized Trial: In Hospital Acute Results. Journal of the American College of Cardiology February 1998:821‑823 

 

Bilodeau L, Schreiber T, Hilton JD, Rosenblum S, Mehta S, Mclvor M, Krajcer Z, Wilson BH, Senerchia C, Beck LD, Pedan A. The Wallstent in Native Coronary Arteries (WIN) Multicenter Trial: Acute Results and 6 Months Follow‑up of the Feasibility Cohort. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  February 1998:1137‑1163 

 

Bilodeau L, Schreiber T, Hilton JD, Rosenblum S, Mclvor ME, Krajcer Z, Wilson BH, Senerchia C, Beck LD, Pedan A. The Wallstent in Native Coronary Arteries (WIN) Multicenter Randomized Trial: In‑Hospital Acute Results.  Supplement to Circulation October 21, 1997 V96:3308 

 

Simonton CA, Leon MB, Kuntz RE, Popma JJ, Hinohara T, Bersin RM, Yock PG, Wilson BH, Cutlip DE, Balm DS. The Sanger Clinic, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, N.C. Acute and Late Clinical and Angiographic Results of Directional Atherectomy in the Optimal Atherectomy Restenosis Study (OARS). Circulation October 15, 1995 V92:2602 

Wilson BH, Tuntelder J, Thompson M, Dezern K, Chuang CH, Daignault KJ, Tatsis GP, Svenson RH. The Sanger Clinic, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, N.C. A Coring Device: Intracoronary Rotational Excision. Journal of the American College of Cardiology February 1994:406A 

 

Bersin RM, Elliott CM, Fedor JM, Gallagher JJ, Jordan 1, Simonton CA, Svenson RH, Wilson BH, Zimmern SH. Mobile cardiac catheterization registry: Report of the first one thousand patients. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 26:73‑79, 1992 

 

Splinter R, Tuntelder JR, Pierce S, Thompson M, Chuang CH, Wilson BH, Svenson RH, Littmann L, Tatsis GP.Ultrasonic characterization of in‑vivo photocoagulation lesion size in myocardium following ND:YAG laser irradiation. American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Abstracts 140, 1991 

 

Wilson, BH, Splinter R, Marroum MC, Tatsis GP, Svenson RH, Papaioannou T, Litvack F, Grundfest W, Heineman Medical Center and Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, NC, and Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Laser Valvuloplasty of calcified aortic valves: a comparison of continuous wave and pulsed lasers. Supplement III Circulation 82:310, 1990 

 

Simonton CA, Austin WK, Elliott CM, Wilson BH, Kowalchuk GJ, Cedarhohm JC, Zimmern SH, The Sanger Clinic, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC. Does autoperfusion balloon coronary angioplasty preserve regional myocardial function during prolonged balloon inflations? Supplement III Circulation 82:2023, 1990 

 

Elliott CM, Bersin RM, Fedor JM, Gallagher JJ, Jordan L, Simonton CA, Svenson RH, Wilson BH, Zimmern SH, The Sanger Clinic, Charlotte, NC. Mobile cardiac catheterization: preliminary report of an ongoing registry. Supplement III Circulation 82:2484, 1990 

 

Forman MB, Puett DW, Cates CU, Olafsson B, Wilson BH, Hande KH, Virmani R.  Oxipurinol limits myocardial stunnign but does not reduce infarct size following reperfusion int eh canine model.  Clin. Res. 35:278A, 1987 

 

Svenson RH, Gallagher JJ, Zimmern SH, Fedor JM, Harbold NB, Elliott CM, Hall DG, Austin WK, Thomley AM, Wilson BH, Selle JG, Sanger Clinic, Heineman Medical Research Center and Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, NC. Intraoperative Nd:YAG  laser photocoagulate ablation of ventricular tachycardia: observations relevant to transcatheter ablation techniques. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 9:249A, 1987 

 

Wilson BH, Forman MB, Kopelman HA, Bostick D, Sandler MY, Sheller J, Virmani R, Friesinger GC. The role of right ventricular hypertrophy in the pathogenesis of right ventricular infarction: a prospective study. Clinical Research 34:355A, 1986 

 

Forman MB, Wilson BH, Puett DW, Bostick D, Friesinger GS, Virmani R. Beneficial long‑term effect of intracoronary perfluorochemical on infarct size and ventricular function in a canine reperfusion model. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 7:168A, 1986 

 

Puett DW, Forman MB, Wilson BH, Gay J, Virmani R, Burr 1. Inability of perfluorochemicals to scavenge free radials in vitro. Clinical Research 34:337A, 1986 

 

Wilson BH, Forman MB, Kopelman HA, Sandler MY, Byrd BF, Virmani R, Campbell WB, Friesinger GC. Right ventricular hypertrophy and chronic obstructive lung disease are independent predictors of right ventricular infarction. Circulation 74: Supp U, 1798, 1986 

 

Morris JJ, Califf LC, Wilson BH, Dillon MC, Williams RB, Wagner GS. Peripheral perfusion and resistance in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 64:312, 1981