Neil Bryan Oldridge, PhD

Director, Fellowship Research & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care Group

Board Certifications: Preventive and Rehabilitative Exercise Program Director (American College of Sports Medicine)

Research interests: Patient outcomes research. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation. Patient health-related quality of life.

Dr. Oldridge is the Director of Fellowship Research for the cardiology and electrophysiology fellows of Aurora Sinai Medical Center and is responsible for guiding fellows in the development of research protocols and projects and for mentoring and training fellows in the techniques and outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation. Dr. Oldridge teaches a regular research seminar series for fellows with a focus on cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation.

Dr. Oldridge received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison after completing undergraduate studies including a B.A. in South Africa and M.A. at the University of Florida. He has extensive experience in research and has written and contributed to several dozen books and well over a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. His honors include the Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation Research Award, the M. Pollock Established Researcher Award from the American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and the Peter Beckmann Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Research in Cardiac Rehabilitation from the German Society of Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Disease. He is a former President of the American College of Sports Medicine.

He is Clinical Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin and Professor Emeritus and Senior Scientist in the College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences at Indiana University and the Medical College of Wisconsin; he has held positions as Professor of Health Sciences and Medicine, Indiana University and Professor of Kinesiology and Medicine at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Oldridge has been invited as visiting professor at major universities in Hong Kong and South Africa and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford in California. He has served on several NIH expert panels and journal editorial panels regarding health research and cardiac rehabilitation and is a member of several professional organizations including the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Association of Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Rehabilitation, the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.

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