Translational Cardiovascular Research Center Seminar Series
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Event Description
The University of Arizona Distinguished Lecture in Cardiovascular Research presents cardiologist and professor, Euegene Braunwald, MD.
Presenter Details
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Braunwald’s seminar will describe the status of our understanding of heart failure before he began his research which led to his own early work focused on the control of ventricular function, as he was the first to measure both left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular dp/dt in patients. His group showed the first neurohumoral defect in human heart failure and he and his colleagues were the first to show the benefit of preventing adverse remodeling of the infarcted ventricle with ACE inhibition. Braunwald will also describe more recent studies including the Entresto clinical trial. He will sum up his seminar with his view of the future of cardiology in the next decade. Braunwald has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Scientist and Lifetime Achievement Awards of the American College of Cardiology, Research Achievement and Herrick Awards of the American Heart Association, the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Heart Failure Society of America. He is the recipient of 22 honorary degrees from distinguished universities throughout the world. The living Nobel Prize winners in medicine voted Braunwald as “the person who has contributed the most to cardiology in recent years.”