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:
- Type 2 Diabetes and Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease
- Effects of Prediabetes on Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
- Glycated Hemoglobin and Risk for Stroke in Diabetic Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
- Inappropriate Aspirin Use for CVD Prevention
- High and Low HbA1c Predict Incident Heart Failure in Type 2 Diabetes
- Obesity Not Associated With Worse Outcomes of Drug-Eluting Stents
- Mortality and Treatment Patterns Among Hospitalized CV Patients During National Cardiology Meeting Dates
- Childhood Obesity: Impact on Cardiac Geometry and Function
- 2014 Top Stories in Cardiology: IMPROVE-IT
- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Predicts Cardiovascular Outcome in Coronary Artery Disease