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:
- Aleglitazar Effect on CV Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
- Comparison of ACC/AHA, ATP III, and ESC Guidelines for CVD Prevention
- Proportion of US Adults Affected by the New Hypertension Guideline
- Evolocumab in Hyperlipidemia
- Validation of Atherosclerotic CVD Risk Equations
- Major Bleeding in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Receiving Apixaban or Warfarin
- ACC 2014: Late-Breaking Trials—Ben Scirica, MD
- Smoking, CAD, and Prognosis of Patients With Non–ST-Segment Elevation ACS
- No Incremental Benefit Seen With Ezetimibe
- PCI in Patients With Stable Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Ischemia