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Cardiovascular, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders Research

The rise in obesity, diabetes, and related cardiovascular disease worldwide, has prompted the need for a further understanding of the causes and mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.

The mission of the BRI Cardiovascular, Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders Research Center is to integrate research efforts in these areas to increase sharing of resources and ideas that will improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders in ways that would be unfeasible for an individual research group or department.

Center Overview

In the long history of cardiovascular care at BWH, our investigators have a strong track record of translating research findings into treatments such as the use of ACE inhibitors as an international standard to improve survival in heart attack patients and the clinical use of the C-reactive protein as an inflammatory biomarker to assess heart disease risk.

Our investigators are the proud recipients of national and international awards including the Hermann Blumgart Award of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and the Clinical Research Prize of the American Heart Association.

Center Co-Chairs

Mark Feinberg

Mark Feinberg, MD

Associate Professor, Medicine

Marie McDonnell, MD

Lecturer on Medicine

Working Group

David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Marcelo Di Carli, MD

Professor of Radiology

Diane Handy, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Ursula Kaiser, MD

Professor, Medicine
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension

Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology

Richard Mitchell, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology

Marc Pfeffer, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology

Charles Ozaki, MD

Department of Surgery

Jorge Plutzky, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Frederick Schoen, MD, PhD

CIMIT Site Miner

Eric Sheu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Indranil Sinha, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

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Ali Tavakkoli, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Learn More

To learn more about the hospital’s effects in cardiovascular care, visit BWH’s Cardiovascular Center of Excellence site. For more information about the Cardiovascular, Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders Research Center, email bwhbri@partners.org

Other Centers, Programs and Priorities

Cancer

Genomics

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Musculoskeletal

Neurosciences

Women’s Health

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Infectious and Immunologic Diseases

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December 5, 2022

1st Annual BWH Postdoc Survey

October 3, 2022

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August 19, 2022

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April 15, 2022

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