John Harvey, M.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Dr. Harvey was unanimously appointed to the position by the hospital board in January after holding the position of co-president for the hospital since it was built in 2002. Dr. Harvey did his pre-med work at Oklahoma Baptist University from 1974 to 1977. He then completed his medical degree at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1981. He went on to conduct his Internship and Residency in internal medicine at the O.U. Health Sciences Center. He completed his Fellowship in Cardiology on that campus in 1987. Dr. Harvey then undertook a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology from Harvard University at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Professionally Dr. Harvey was an attending physician at VA Medical Center of Oklahoma City in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and a clinical instructor and assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He was appointed the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Oklahoma Memorial Hospital in 1988, and in 1991 joined the Heart Group of Oklahoma as an Interventional and Clinical Cardiologist. In 1998, Dr. Harvey became one of the founding members of Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates. When the Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened in 2002, Dr. Harvey was named Medical Director and co-President.