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Benjamin Scirica MD

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, Massachusetts

Dr. 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:

  1. Silent Myocardial Infarction and Long-Term Risk of Heart Failure
  2. Cardiovascular Outcomes According to Urinary Albumin and Kidney Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes at High Cardiovascular Risk
  3. 2017 Top Stories in Cardiology: The Inflammation Hypothesis of Atherosclerosis Comes of Age: The CANTOS Trial
  4. 2017 Top Stories in Cardiology: The FDA Approves the First "High-Sensitivity” Troponin Assay
  5. Statin Use and Risk of Developing Diabetes
  6. Cardiovascular Safety and Efficacy of the PCSK9 Inhibitor Evolocumab in Patients With and Without Diabetes
  7. Empagliflozin Improves Heart Failure Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
  8. ESC 2017: Recommendations From Dr. Ben Scirica
  9. Influence of Diabetes on Long-Term Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patency
  10. Canagliflozin May Reduce Cardiovascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes

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