Jerold Hawn, M.D.

About Jerold Hawn, M.D.

Dr. Hawn received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Santa Clara Univ., and his medical degree from Georgetown University. He interned in Medicine at the Univ. of Pittsburg Hospitals, and took residency in medicine, and fellowship in Cardiology at OHSU. After 2 yrs. in the USAF as a Major in the medical corp, he entered practice in cardiology in Eugene. He spent one year as a research fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Univ. of California San Francisco School of Medicine. He studied mechanisms affecting cardiac hypertrophy in neonatal rats.

He has practiced 40 yrs. in Eugene, mainly as an interventional cardiologist, and more recently concentrating on heart failure, mechanisms and treatments. His cardiac research interests include heart failure, and factors affecting development of cardiac hypertrophy.

He has been a climber (Mt. Ranier 3 times), hikes regularly, and loves physics and astronomy.