Leading heart doctor killed jogging in Orlando, Fla

ORLANDO, Fla Nov 17 (Reuters) - One of the United States' most prominent cardiologists, Dr. Kenneth Baughman of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, died after being struck by a car while jogging early Monday morning, the American Heart Association said.

Baughman, 63, was in Orlando to attend the AHA's annual scientific sessions, where tens of thousands of other physicians are gathering this week. He was killed not far from the Orange County Convention Center, an area with wide boulevards and few pedestrian crosswalks.

"Ken was a role model for all of us as a superb clinician, educator and clinician-scientist," Dr. Robert Bonow, past president of the AHA and chief of cardiology at Northwestern University, said in a statement released by the AHA.

Baughman was director of the Advanced Heart Disease Program at Brigham and had served for many years as director of the cardiology division at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. (Reporting by Ransdell Pierson; Editing by Toni Reinhold)