
Ehrin Armstrong
Stanford
Ulster University, Coleraine (UUC)
Medicine/Healthcare
Ehrin is the Medical Director at the Adventist Heart and Vascular Institute at Adventist Health, St. Helena Hospital in St. Helena, California. In the preceding years, he was the Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also the Director of Interventional Cardiology. Ehrin combines the roles of medical practitioner, scholar, and researcher. He divides his time between treating vascular disorders and emergency heart attack patients who may require surgical intervention, conducting advanced research into the causes of heart attacks at the molecular level, and teaching medical residents and cardiology trainees. Ehrin has contributed chapters to many medical texts, and his research has been published in leading cardiology journals. Ehrin is a 2002 Mitchell Scholar. He received an MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Ulster. Interested in the network advantages of bringing together practitioners and innovators, Ehrin's research examined the opportunities for and barriers to establishing a technology cluster in Northern Ireland. His research gave him insight into how clustering of expertise could apply to healthcare and the development of long-term health care policy. Ehrin obtained his undergraduate degree from Stanford.
