Richard Vander Heide, MD, PhD, MBA

Richard Vander Heide, MD, Ph.D., MBA is the Chair of Pathology at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Calvin University in Grand Rapids (BS) and Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. He completed his residency in Pathology and Cardiovascular Fellowship at Duke University. Following completion of his training, Dr. Vander Heide took a position at Wayne State University where he was Director of the Autopsy Service and won several awards for his teaching of medical students as well as directing the ACGME approved Pathology residency training program. In 2000, he became the leader of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center. In 2009 he was awarded the Jack P. Strong endowed Chair of Pathology at LSU Medical School in New Orleans, LA. During his time at LSU he published some of the first United States autopsy reports of the COVID-19 pandemic. He served at LSU until 2021 when he became the Service Line Medical Director/Chair of Pathology at the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin overseeing a large rural laboratory operation. His clinical, teaching, and research interests include medical education and cardiovascular pathology.