For clinicians, a medical event can be routine. For patients & their families, it rips a hole in their lives. It’s been 4 years since Dr. Glaucomflecken’s sudden cardiac arrest. That day, the ground fell out beneath us, & months of aftershocks followed, reshaping our landscape. 1/3

Honored to host Nobel Laureate Professor Josh Angrist as the 2024 BIDMC Smith Center Visiting Professor this morning. Phenomenal talk on instrumental variable methods and their application in cardiovascular research and clinical trials!

After performing CPR during my husband’s SCA I didn't know how to explain to my family and friends what I was experiencing, so I used a name for the place I had gone. I called it the Quiet Place. 1/6

Welcome to the team Lichen Liang, PhD - Lead Biostatistician!
His work focuses on developing statistical methodologies for the analysis of large-scale medical datasets.
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Astonishing results from the DanGer Shock Trial presented at #ACC24 and out in NEJM today.

In patients with ST-elevation MI with cardiogenic shock, Impella reduced all-cause mortality (45.8% Impella vs. 58.5% control) at 180 days.

Some thoughts on this ground breaking trial:

Couldn’t be more proud of my mentor Robert W. Yeh MD and the amazing Jennifer Ho !! Very well deserved. Congrats to you both!!!

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Benoy Shah MD Sanjay Kaul TCTMD Mamas A. Mamas David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Shelley Wood (she/her) Ankur Kalra Madalina Garbi Jay Mohan, D.O., FACC, FSCAI, FASE, RPVI Vass Vassiliou Jordan Strom, MD, MSc, FACC, FASE 🙏, Just discussed this at Circ: CQO editorial meeting this morning with Dhruv Kazi giving insights into the important differences between the 2 (drug 🆚 device) esp in context of other countries where cost is deciding factor bit.ly/3TBGefe Brahmajee Nallamothu Circulation

Happy to share our most recent pub (tinyurl.com/4m58ejzd) JAHA which establishes normal ref ranges for #EchoFirst chamber sizes indexed to BSA, BMI, height, allometric height across sexes + races using NIH NHLBI #MESA data. American Society of Echocardiography Monica Mukherjee MD, MPH Ben Freed, MD Sanjiv J. Shah, MD

Meet Dr. Wilson Lam: The Captain and the genius, organizational machine behind the Jeopardy American College of Cardiology #ACC24 ! Meet Dr. Anish Bhatt- the perfectionist and a gem, the mastermind at picking the absolute best questions! Looking forward to the battle of the chapters! Wilson Lam

It's time to rethink our approach to anabolic steroids & treat it with the same seriousness as other drug addictions.

It’s so common, it can no longer be ignored.

In American College of Cardiology, we outline typical steroid regimens & a strategy to guide users to safety.

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The Smith Center will be at #ACC24 ! Full line-up in the thread below. Register here to make sure you catch all the presentations: accscientificsession.acc.org/Registration-a…

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A new study by Michael Liu and Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP in JAMA examined Medicare's new health equity adjustment in the HVBP program and found that hospitals caring for minoritized and low-income populations will benefit most from the new adjustment: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

In 1991 my father nearly died of sepsis

He was in an ICU with ZERO white blood cells after treatment for cancer

His oncologist came in with a new medicine (literally approved that week by the FDA!) to stimulate his bone marrow

33 years later insurers are still fighting its use

The best part of “smaller” science meetings - reconnecting with colleagues and friends and making new ones! American Heart Association AHA Science #EPILIFESTYLE24

Great kickoff at #EPILifestyle24 in Chicago with warm welcome by program chairs Alvaro Alonso and Monica Serra; exciting keynote talks by Karen Joynt Maddox Dhruv Kazi and Alice Lichtenstein; and vibrant poster sessions. AHA Science AHAMeetings Don Lloyd-Jones nancyatheart Deborah Rohm Young

Congratulations to Dr. Robert E. Gerszten, of BIDMC and Harvard Medical School, for being named the 2024 recipient of the Paul Dudley White Award! Dr. Gerszten is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to cardiovascular care. Read more: newsroom.heart.org/local-news/bet…

1/ Despite decades of progress, why have trends in🫀deaths reversed among middle-aged US adults?

In Annals of Int Med, we find concerning 📉 in cardiovascular health in this population over the past two decades, as well as enduring income-based inequities.

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Congratulations to our matched Smith Center trainees! We wish the best of luck to them in this new phase of their journey.

Ashley Kyalwazi & Julia Foote - UC San Francisco
Frans Serpa - UTSW Internal Medicine
Nate Watson - Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sud Perera - Yale New Haven Hosp

Congratulations, Eric! So well-deserved!

It’s been an absolute honor to learn from and collaborate with Dr Hsue over the years, and to witness firsthand the incredibly nurturing relationship she has with her many, many mentees.

Can’t wait to see the magic she works at UCLA Health + Department of Medicine at UCLA Health!