CardioTrends provides the highest quality information from Brigham and Women's Hospital's Cardiovascular Division for practitioners and researchers in the field. In a Grand Rounds setting, distinguished speakers discuss important developments in cardiovascular care and related research.

From one of the most respected academic cardiovascular programs, with a rich tradition of clinical leadership and innovation, this engaging internet-based didactic program permits virtual attendance and a new option for learning for the cardiovascular professional.
     
Introduction to BWH Cardiovascular Grand Rounds Online by Program Directors:
Dr Marc A.Pfeffer MD, PhD, and Dr Peter Libby MD

New  
Contemporary Insight to Excess Cardiovascular Risk in African Americans
Kenneth Jamerson,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Recent Grand Rounds  
Treating Tobacco Use in 2008 - New options for an old problem
Nancy A. Rigotti, MD
 
Combination Therapy for the Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Kwang Kon Koh, MD, PhD
 
Mind the Gap: Is the Distance between Bench and Bedside Widening or Narrowing?
Arnold M. Katz, MD
 
Cardiac Pacing Meets Evidence-Based Medicine
Gervasio A. Lamas, MD
 
The Open Muscle Hypothesis
C. Michael Gibson, MD
 
Management of Renal Artery Disease for the Cardiovascular Specialist
Jeffrey W. Olin, DO, FACC
 
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
Hugh Calkins, MD
 
Exercise as an Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Diabetes
Ronald J. Sigal, MD, MPH, FRCPC
 
IVUS: Assessment of Coronary Atherosclerosis Progression/Regression
Steven Nissen, MD
 
Diastolic Heart Failure: From Pathophisiological Curiosity to Pandemia
Prof Dr Walter J. Paulus, MD, PhD, FESC
 
Energetics of the Failing Heart
Joanne Ingwall, PhD
Myocardial Insulin Resistance: A New Therapeutic target in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Richard Shannon, MD
Mechanics By Echocardiography: What the Eye Cannot See…Strain Can!
Theodore Abraham, MD
Commotio Cordis
N.A. Mark Estes, III, M.D.
Pregnancy with Eisenmengers Syndrome - Lessons from Cases
John Rutherford, MD
Updates in Clinical Applications, Future Techniques, and Patient Safety of Cardiac magnetic Resonance Imaging
Raymond Y. Kwong, MD
Focus on Translational Research: Endothelial Perspective
Peter Ganz, MD
Cocaine-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity: Novel Mechanisms and Therapy
Ronald G. Victor, MD
A Glimpse of Yesterday: Treatment of "Dropsy"
Hector Ventura, MD
Cocaine and The Heart
Richard Lange, MD
 
Commerce in Medical Practice, Medical Education and Medical Research: Conflict or Harmony of Interests?
Thomas P. Stossel, MD
 
The Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Clots and Beyond
Bonnie L. Bermas, MD
Management of the Aorta in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
Ralph Morton Bolman
Peripheral Arterial Disease: The Next Cardiovascular Frontier
Mark Creager, MD
Acidosis, Ischemia and Preconditioning - What the Cardiac Myocyte Sees
Andrew Wasserstrom, PhD
Cardiac Regeneration - New Paradigms & New Treatment Opportunities
Joshua Hare, MD
At the Interface of Metabolism and Atherosclerosis: Issues and Opportunities in CV Risk Reduction
Jorge Plutzky, MD
Acute Coronary Syndromes - Research to Practice
Christopher Granger, MD
Ventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Scars
William Stevenson, MD
BWH Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery 1996-2007
Lawrence H. Cohn, MD
Cardiac Side Population Cells: Side Order or Main Entrée for Cardiac Regeneration?
Ronglih Liao, Ph.D.
Drugs Eluting Stents - Are they Safe?
David P. Faxon, MD
Expanding Our View of Aldosterone:From Heart Failure to Diabetic Nephropathy
Jane Leopold, MD Gail Adler, MD
 
Oxidative Stress and CVD: Fact or Fantasy?
John F. Keaney, Jr., MD
Improved Survival for Class III Heart Failure after 2000: Impact of Therapies Demonstrated in a Real-life Population
Reena L. Pande, MD
The Relative Strength of C-Reactive Protein and Lipid Levels as Determinants of Ischemic Stroke as Compared with Coronary Heart Disease in Women
Brendan M. Everett, MD
Strong Prognostic Implication of Left Atrial Conduit and Pump Functions Assessed by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Hypertensive Patients at Risk for Diastolic Dysfunction
Raymond Y. Kwong, MD
Hypertension more than mm Hg!
Björn Dahlöf, MD
The Preparticipation CV Screening of Young Athletes: the European Perspective
Antonio Pelliccia, MD
Reversible Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction
Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD
 
 
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