Dr. Richard Wright is currently Research Director and Director of the Heart Failure Center, Pacific Heart Institute. He previously served as Director of the Heart Institute and Director of Critical Care at Saint John’s Health Center and on clinical faculty at UCLA.   

Dr. Wright earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his medical residency and cardiology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  

He is the Co-Director of the Medicare Contractor Advisory Committee for California; Vice-Chair of the American College of Cardiology National Carrier Advisory Committee; Past-President and Governor, California Chapter, American College of Cardiology; and Medical Advisor at the Los Angeles Zoo, where he serves as the cardiologist for the Great Apes at the zoo.  

Dr. Wright has lectured extensively on hypertension, atherosclerosis, and heart failure and has had multiple publications in top peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals.  He was also co-author of the U.S. Federal Guidelines on management of heart failure.   A recipient of the “Specialist of the Year Award” by the American College of Cardiology California, Dr. Wright is listed by the Center for the Study of Services as the top cardiologist in Southern California.