Dr. Wayne Batchelor is President of the Medicine Service Line. He joined Inova in 2019 with more than two decades of executive leadership in academic medicine, private practice, clinical research, and education. He is Professor of Medicine (adj.), Duke University, Chair of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Interventional Sectional Leadership Council, and Vice-Chair of the STS/ACC Transcatheter Valve Therapy (TVT) Registry. He has previously served as an academic cardiologist at the University of Toronto, President of Southern Medical Group, PA in Tallahassee, Florida, Board Member of Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, and Co-Founder/President of the Tallahassee Research Institute (TRI). He is internationally recognized for his clinical and research expertise in interventional cardiology, clinical trials, outcomes research, regulatory science, and healthcare disparities in medicine. 

Fostering multidisciplinary collaborations within and between service lines, Dr. Batchelor has successfully built innovative clinical programs and improved patient outcomes within both private practice and academic medical settings. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed abstracts and manuscripts, multiple book chapters, served on numerous clinical trial steering committees and as National Principal Investigator (PI) on landmark clinical trials in cardiovascular medicine. He is a special consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the Cardiovascular Devices Branch, has served on the editorial boards for Circulation, the Journal of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine and is a Senior Advisor and frequent Guest Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Batchelor earned his bachelor of science and medical degree from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a master's degree in clinical research from Duke University, and an Executive MBA from New York University.

Awards/Associations

• Capital Medical Society's Outstanding Physician of the Year Award
• Sopman Award for Clinical Excellence and Human Compassion
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
• Fellow of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions

Research and Publications

View a list of publications from Dr. Batchelor's research

Blog Posts

Inova among first hospitals to introduce leading-edge treatment for blocked or narrowed coronary artery stents (July 2024)

Inova introduces a groundbreaking procedure to control resistant high blood pressure (April 2024)

Inova plays a key role in trial of innovative treatment for tricuspid valve regurgitation that is now approved by the FDA (April 2024)

A minimally invasive option for pulmonary regurgitation (July 2023)

Inova study offers new treatment for tricuspid valve regurgitation (March 2021)

Health disparities in aortic stenosis: Closing the treatment gap (February 2020)

Podcasts

Should you take aspirin to prevent heart attacks? (June 2019)