Genes, lifestyle, and risk for heart attack

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET

Sekar Kathiresan, M.D.

Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Director, Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

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Summary

Dr. Kathiresan leverages human genetics to understand the root causes of heart attack and to improve preventive cardiac care. Among his scientific contributions, Dr. Kathiresan has helped highlight new biological mechanisms underlying heart attack, discovered mutations that protect against heart attack risk, and developed a genetic test for personalized heart attack prevention.