Barry K. Rayburn MD, FACC

Dr. Barry Rayburn is a widely acknowledged expert on the management of congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. He received his medical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He then went on to serve as an Assistant Chief of Service for the Osler Medical Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He then completed fellowships in internal medicine and clinical cardiology as well as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation at Hopkins.

Subsequently, Dr. Rayburn was a faculty member at Wake Forest University and then Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine where he served as Medical Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Transplantation and Pulmonary Hypertension. After over a decade at UAB, he joined CVA in 2010.

Dr. Rayburn has received numerous awards during his career. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is a member of the Council on Circulation for the American Heart Association, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society for Heart/Lung Transplantation. Dr. Rayburn is widely acclaimed for his teaching and lecturing on the management of patients with congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation.