Dr. Ohman is Professor of Medicine and received medical degrees from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the National University of Ireland and completed his training in cardiology at Duke University. In 2001, he became Chief of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he founded the UNC Heart Center and became its first director. In 2005 he returned to Duke to pursue his interest in advanced coronary disease as the Director of the Program for Advanced Coronary Disease. He was Associate Director of the Duke Heart Center, the Kent and Siri Rawson Director for the Program for Advanced Coronary Disease, and most recently, Vice-Chair of Medicine, Development and Innovation in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Ohman was a consultant for the FDA Advisory Panel for Cardiovascular Devices and consultant to the NIH. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers. Since 2022 he has been Vice-President of Global Development in General Medicine at Amgen.
