T32 Training Program Mentors
| Mentor | Positions | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| William T. Pu, MD T32 Co-PI | Professor, HMS Director of Basic and Transl. CV Research BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Heart and vessel development and disease; Gene regulation; Inherited heart disease models; Novel therapies for inherited heart disease |
| Jane W. Newburger, MD MPH T32 Co-PI | Professor, HMS Associate Chief of Academic Affairs, BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Clinical trials and outcomes research in congenital and acquired heart disease in children, including Kawasaki disease |
| Sarah D. de Ferranti, MD MPH T32 Associate Director | Associate Professor, HMS; Chief of Outpatient Cardiology, BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Understanding and reducing atherosclerotic risk in childhood |
| Vassilios J. Bezzerides, MD PhD | Assistant Professor, HMS; Electrophysiologist, BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Inherited arrhythmias; Cardiac gene therapy |
| Joyce Bischoff, PhD | Professor, HMS; Vascular Biology, BCH | Endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) and endothelial plasticity in vascular tumors and malformation. Vascular progenitor cells (including ECFCs) in building vascular networks in damaged and/or diseased tissue |
| David M. Briscoe, MD | Professor, HMS; Nephrology, BCH | Transplant immunobiology |
| Geoffrey C. Burns, PhD | Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Cardiovascular development, regeneration, and disease |
| Caroline E. Burns, PhD | Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Cardiovascular development, regeneration, and disease |
| Kaifu Chen, PhD | Associate Professor, HMS; Director of Computational Biology, BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Computational biology; Epigenetics; Chromatin structure; Cell identity genes |
| Kevin P. Daly, MD | Assistant Professor, HSM; Heart failure & transplant, BCH Dept of Cardiology | Biomarkers for CAV; Clinical trials in heart failure and transplant |
| Pedro J. del Nido, MD | Professor, HMS; Chief, BCH Cardiac Surgery | Heart valve disease, Reconstructive surgery in the beating heart |
| Pierre E. Dupont, PhD | Professor, HMS; BCH Cardiac Surgery | Design & control of novel medical robots and instruments, modeling tool-tissue interaction |
| Elazer Edelman, MD PhD | Professor, MIT and HMS; Director, Inst for Med Eng and Science, MIT | Cardiolovascular pathophysiology, Biomedical Engineering |
| Kevin Friedman, MD | Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Fetal diagnosis and management of complex congenital heart disease; Kawasaki Disease. |
| Robert E. Gerszten, MD | Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, BIDMC | Cardiac and metabolic diseases |
| Tal Geva, MD | Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, BCH | Cardiac non-invasive imaging and congenital heart disease outcomes |
| Michelle Gurvitz, MD MS | Assistant Professor, HMS; Adult congenital heart disease, BCH/BWH | Population health, adult congenital heart disease |
| Timothy Hla, PhD | Professor, HMS; Vascular Biology, BCH | Angiogenesis, vascular biology, lipid mediators |
| John N. Kheir, MD | Associate Professor, HMS; Cardiac ICU; co-director, Translational Research Lab, BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Oxygen metabolism |
| Stella Kourembanas, MD | Professor, HMS; Chief of Newborn Medicine, BCH | Molecular and cellular basis of lung inflammation, hypoxic signaling, and developmental lung injury |
| Richard T. Lee, MD | Professor, HMS; Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard | Cardiac regeneration and aging |
| Calum MacRae, MD PhD | Professor, HMS; Vice-Chair for Scientific Innovation, BWH | Genetics, physiology, and drug discovery |
| Kenneth D. Mandl, MD MPH | Professor, HMS; Director of Computational Health Informatics, BCH | Innovation in biomedical informatics for discovery, population health, and care system redesign |
| Juan Melero-Martin, PhD | Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Cardiac Surgery | Endothelial cell biology; vascularization |
| Kevin Kit Parker, PhD | Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Cellular mechanotransduction in the heart |
| Brian Polizzotti, PhD | Assistant Professor, HMS; Co-director, Translational Research Lab, BCH | Translation at the interface of chemical engineering and medicine |
| Amy E. Roberts, MD | Associate Professor, HMS; CV Genetics, BCH | Genetics of congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and Rasopathies |
| Anthony Rosenzweig, MD | Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, MGH | Mechanisms of heart failure, exercise-mediated-cardioprotection, and cardiomyogenesis |
| Christine E. Seidman, MD PhD | Professor, HMS; BWH Cardiology; HHMI | Using genomic strategies to define causes of cardiovascular disease |
| Jonathan G. Seidman, MD PhD | Professor, HMS; Department of Genetics, HMS | Using genomic strategies to define causes of cardiovascular disease |
| Lynn Sleeper, PhD | Associate Professor, HMS; Scientific Director of Clinical Research, BCH Dept. of Cardiology | Clinical outcomes research in pediatric cardiology |
| Colin Stultz, MD PhD | Professor, MIT; Inst for Med Eng and Science, MIT; Cardiology, MGH | Machine learning to identify patients at high risk of adverse clinical events |
| Wayne Tworetzky, MD | Associate Professor, HMS; Director of Fetal Cardiology, BCH | Fetal cardiology |
| Christopher Walsh, MD PhD | Professor, HMS; Chief of Genetics and Genomics, BCH | Brain cortex development |
| Da-Zhi Wang, PhD | Professor, HMS; Dept. of Cardiology, BCH | Molecular mechanisms of heart development and disease |