Benjamin Morgan Scirica MD
Senior Physician and Director, Innovation, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Investigator, TIMI Study Group, Boston, MassachusettsDr. Benjamin Scirica is a senior physician and Director of Innovation in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a Senior Investigator at the TIMI Study Group (an academic research organization based at Brigham and Women's Hospital that has performed over 75 clinical trials in cardiometabolic diseases).
His research interests center on the risk stratification, management, and the identifation of novel therapies to improve outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes and cardiometabolic disorders.
Dr. Scirica has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and is a reviewer for multiple journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, Circulation, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
Disclosures
- Institutional research support to Brigham and Women’s Hospital from: Amgen; Better Therapeutics; Boehringer Ingelheim; Merck; Novo Nordisk; Pfizer; Verve Therapeutics
- Consulting fees from: AbbVie (DSMB); Amgen; AstraZeneca (DSMB); Bayer; Boehringer Ingelheim (DSMB); Elsevier Practice Update Cardiology; Hanmi (DSMB); Lexeo (DSMB); Novo Nordisk; Verve Therapeutics; and equity in Health [at] Scale; Arboretum Lifescience
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- A Parsimonious Risk Model for In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Atherothrombotic Risk Assessment Assists Decision Making Regarding Vorapaxar in MI Patients
- Empagliflozin Slows Progression of Kidney Disease in Diabetes
- Liraglutide Reduces CV Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
- Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors and Hospitalized Heart Failure
- The Association of Type 2 Diabetes With Lipoproteins, Insulin Resistance, and Rosuvastatin
- Incretin-Based Drugs and Heart Failure
- ACC 2016: Abstract Recommendations From Dr. Ben Scirica
- Metabolomic Profiling of Statin Use and Genetic Inhibition of HMG-CoA Reductase
- Post-Hospital Outcomes of Patients With AMI With Cardiogenic Shock