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:
- Targeted Temperature Management at 33°C Versus 36°C After Cardiac Arrest
- AHA 2013: Late-Breaking Trials—Ben Scirica, MD
- TCT: New Trial Data on DAPT Duration Following 2nd Generation Stents
- TCT: Practice Implications of Key New Data for the Interventional Cardiologist
- AHA 2013 Recommended Abstracts: General Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease
- The Role of Imaging in Evaluation of Heart Failure
- Three vs Twelve Months of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Zotarolimus-Eluting Stents (The OPTIMIZE Randomized Trial)
- Polypill Therapy, Subclinical Atherosclerosis, and Cardiovascular Events - Implications for the Use of Preventive Pharmacotherapy: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
- Imaging Use in Evaluation of Chest Pain in the ER
- Peter Libby on the Look Ahead Study