Eduard I. Dedkov, MD, PhD, FAHA, is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU), Camden NJ. He joined CMSRU in 2016 as a Tenure-Track Associate Professor to serve as a co-facilitator in Clinical Case-Based Active Learning Groups and as a longitudinal content coordinator for Human Histology/Virtual Microscopy in organ system-based courses. He has also continued to conduct his basic cardiovascular research directed toward elucidation of the novel therapeutic strategies to ameliorate systolic and diastolic heart failure using small animal experimental models.

Dr. Dedkov earned his degree in Medicine (1993) and his doctorate in Histology/Embryology (1996) from Orenburg State Medical Academy (currently known as Orenburg State Medical University) in Russian Federation. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Michigan Medical School (1996-2003).

Prior to joining the faculty at CMSRU, Dr. Dedkov has been employed as an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (2003-2006), where he conducted research in the area of cardiovascular development and aging-related cardiac diseases, and then, as an Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (2006-2016), where he taught first and second year medical students in both a system-based and a problem-based learning curricular, as well as continued his experimental research in the field of basic cardiovascular sciences.

Dr. Dedkov’s current research interests are focused on the following areas: 1) novel therapeutic approaches to ameliorate systolic and diastolic heart failure, 2) post-myocardial infarction cardiac repair mechanism, 3) the effect of ivabradine-induced heart rate reduction on post-myocardial infarction remodeling and fibrosis and 4) sex-based differences in cardiac aging.

During his career, Dr. Dedkov has published 35 peer-reviewed research articles, one book chapter and numerous research meeting abstracts. He has served as a grant reviewer for the American Heart Association (2008-2013) and as a member of annual meeting program coordinating committee for the American Association for Anatomy (2007-2015). Dr. Dedkov has organized and chaired 7 oral scientific sessions at the Experimental Biology meetings (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017). He is an active member of several professional societies, including American Heart Association, American Association for Anatomy, American Physiological Society and American Society for Investigative Pathology.