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:
- REGARDS Study: Optimal Medical Therapy Goals in CAD
- Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence After Acute Coronary Syndrome Hospital Discharge
- Mortality With High-Potency Statin and Ezetimibe After Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Prognostic Performance of Emerging Biomarkers in Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome
- FDA to Probe Saxagliptin’s Heart Failure Risk
- The FFIT Program: A Weight Loss and Healthy Living Plan for Men by the Scottish Premier League Football Clubs
- Yield of Downstream Tests After Exercise Treadmill Testing
- FDA to Probe Saxagliptin’s Heart Failure Risk
- The FFIT Program: A Weight Loss and Healthy Living Plan for Men by the Scottish Premier League Football Clubs
- Factors Associated With Treatment Delay for Suspected ACS