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:
- Insulin Delivery Method and Cardiovascular Mortality in Type 1 Diabetes
- Effect of Sitagliptin on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
- Glycemic Control and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
- Air vs Oxygen in STEMI
- Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients With Chest Pain at Hospital Admission
- Neuron-Specific Enolase Is a Robust Predictor of Poor Neurological Outcome After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
- Risk for Gastrointestinal Bleeding With Dabigatran, Rivaroxaban, and Warfarin
- Risk for Gastrointestinal Bleeding Associated With Oral Anticoagulants
- Recognition of Incident Diabetes During an Acute MI
- Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis and Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis