Our research team had such a wonderful year learning from visiting post-doc fellow Frederikke Held berg, who taught us everything about Denmark's health care system, international comparisons research, and the ultimate Danish Christmas drink - Gløgg

Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, MSc, MPH, PhD BIDMC Smith Center

Out in JAMA Cardiology today: Environmental stressors like extreme temps, hurricanes, & wildfires associated w/ increased cardiovascular morbidity & mortality.

Urgent action needed to mitigate risk, esp in vulnerable populations. #climatechange

bit.ly/ClimateChangeC… BIDMC

Join me Sunday to hear about our research with Ultromics applying AI to #EchoFirst images for predicting #HFpEF . I will be joined by the esteemed Akhil Narang, MD Dr.Patricia Pellikka Ross Upton PhD

Does Sentinel BostonSci Cardiology reduce disabling stroke during #TAVR ?

✅YES, but benefit is small (13% RRR; NNT ~500-800) for all comers.
✅Patients with prior stroke have a ⬆️⬆️ benefit (RRR 40%, NNT ~150).

LBCS Cardiovascular Research Foundation #NYValves2024 with sim pub CircInterventions

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Congratulations to Jordan Strom, MD, MSc, FACC, FASE on his promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School! We are excited to see what this new chapter will bring.

How do you distinguish a disabling from a non-disabling stroke after #TAVR ? Is discharge location a predictor of severity? @CRFheart #NYValves2024 AHA Science @circAHA #TAVI #cardiotwitter #AHAJournals Samir Kapadia Neel Butala Robert W. Yeh MD David J. Cohen, MD, MSc ahajrnls.org/3RjcALd

Do you use an embolic protection device during #TAVR ? Updated results from the STS/ACC TVT Registry presented @CRFheart #NYValves2024 and published simultaneously AHA Science @circAHA #AHAJournals #Cardiotwitter Samir Kapadia Neel Butala Robert W. Yeh MD ahajrnls.org/3V8nx3r

Seems like yesterday that Jordan Strom, MD, MSc, FACC, FASE was an intern interested in getting his feet wet in cardiology research.

Today, he's an Associate Professor Harvard Medical School.

Congrats Jordi!! You've earned it!!

BIDMC Smith Center

Papers here:
tinyurl.com/AHACVDPrev
tinyurl.com/AHACVCosts

@american_heart news release here
tinyurl.com/AHAForecastNews

Shout out to Karen Joynt Maddox Mitchell Elkind and all co-authors and staff who made these papers possible

Two American Heart Association Presidential Advisories released today project the future burden of #heartdisease and #stroke in the US
– and the numbers are truly astounding
Circulation

What will cardiovascular disease look like in 2050? And how much will it cost?
tinyurl.com/AHACVCosts
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Years ago, my father received a significant promotion, placing him among the most successful professors in his university’s history. I noted that the title on his email signature block had changed, so I sarcastically asked him what it meant to be a “distinguished professor.”

My…

Terrific #OPCI24 session this am on angina after PCI, and I always come back to this idea from an old tweet.

Christina Lalani and I wrote about it when discussing 2 fantastic studies by Rasha Al-Lamee and team.

jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

Smith Center investigator, Jordan Strom, MD, MSc, FACC, FASE, gets a shout out in American Society of Echocardiography Echo magazine after a successful panel at the ASE IRT Think Tank. Read here: 780c073a1.flowpaper.com/EchoMagazineMa…

So proud of super🌟 Ashley Kyalwazi on graduating with an MD/MPP from Harvard University, all while running The MV3 Foundation & pursuing health policy research training BIDMC Smith Center

Can't wait to witness your inimitable magic & impact UC San Francisco

Your gifts will help me be the ultimate #GirlDad !

Thank you, Dr Mandrola, for your thought-provoking BIDMC CVI grand rounds!

Key take-aways:
- Embrace medical skepticism but not nihilism
- Re-examine longstanding beliefs (why do we do what we do?)
- Be self-aware of your biases
- Commit to life-long learning

John Mandrola, MD

The inability to consistently address angina w/ revascularization highlights a need for innovation in diagnosis of patients likely to benefit from PCI, not a failure in therapy.

New editorial from Christina Lalani & Robert W. Yeh MD in JACC Journals: jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

The Inflation Reduction Act and Access to Heart Failure Therapies - Prices, Progress, and Promise

New informative Journal of Cardiac Failure Ignite 🔥by leaders Andrew Oseran, MD MBA & Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP

onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-…

Proud of our societies and SCAI Now for helping protect our patients and patient care. Credit to EviCore for listening and being responsive. This hopefully sets the path for other insurers. Kumar Madassery Fadi Saab Society of Interventional Radiology