Dr. Spooner has pursued a broad career in biomedical research with many years experience in health science program management and laboratory discovery at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda MD, and most recently in the Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine as Executive Associate Director for the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. Dr. Spooner serves the Reynolds Center as its sole full time professional asset and facilitates the administrative and managerial operations of the Center's scientific and clinical activities. Following graduate work at the University of Illinois and Fellowships at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Imperial Cancer Research in London he began his career at the NIH in the Laboratory of Nutrition & Endocrinology of NIAMDD. He later moved to the NHLBI where he held multiple positions, including Director for Extramural Program and Project Review, Chief of the Cardiac Functions Branch, and most recently as Director for the Institutes’ Extramural Programs in Arrhythmia, Ischemia and Sudden Cardiac Death research. In this capacity he also focused on developing a number of the Institute’s large programs in cardiovascular genetics.
He is the author of many journal articles and three texts in the field of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death. He is active on the publications and editorial committees of journals and societies active in this area and contributes widely to national and international program development in this field. He is or has been a long term member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Endocrine Society, NASPE-Heart Rhythm Society and the American Heart Assn. He served on the AHA’s BCVS Council Executive Committee for many years and was recently honored in 2002 as recipient of the American Heart Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award in the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences.
