Month: November 2023

ASCI Perspectives: Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD – full video

Posted on by Maya Hoptman

DEIC Committee member Dr. Vijay Sankaran interviewed Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD (view profile), who serves as Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Florez’s lab has conducted and analyzed high-throughput genomic studies in type 2 diabetes. As MGH chair, he oversees numerous faculty members and trainees. In this interview, Dr. Florez discusses how genomic medicine can transform patient care, as well as the importance of being open to change in one’s career. — Posted November 2023

For the full interview, click the image. (For a clip, click here; 6 minutes.)

ASCI Perspectives: Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD – video clip

Posted on by Maya Hoptman

DEIC Committee member Dr. Vijay Sankaran interviewed Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD (view profile), who serves as Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Florez’s lab has conducted and analyzed high-throughput genomic studies in type 2 diabetes. As MGH chair, he oversees numerous faculty members and trainees. In this interview, Dr. Florez discusses how genomic medicine can transform patient care, as well as the importance of being open to change in one’s career. — Posted November 2023

For a clip of the interview, click the image. (For, the full interview, click here; 23 minutes).

ASCI Scientific Session: Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD – Dec. 7, 2023, 1-2pm E

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Photograph of Dr. Olujimi Ajijola
Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD

December 7, 1-2 pm Eastern

Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD, Associate Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs, Director of the Neurocardiology Research Program, Co-Director of the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine-Cardiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, will present:

Bedside to Bench Odysseys: Rethinking Cardiac Autonomic Function & Ventricular Arrhythmogenesis

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This event will be moderated by Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD. Dr. Ardehali, who served as the ASCI’s 2021-2022 President, is Thomas D. Spies Professor of Cardiac Metabolism, Professor of Medicine-Cardiology and Professor of Pharmacology; and Director, Center for Molecular Cardiology, at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Click here for more information and to view past ASCI Scientific Sessions.