Team Work

Meet
our team of
Investigators

Executive HCM:

Dr. Sharlene Day

Dr. Sharlene Day graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her MD degree from New York University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Carolyn Ho

Dr. Carolyn Ho is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Iacopo Olivotto

Trained in Florence and London, Dr. Olivotto has pursued a career in Emergency Medicine and subsequently in Cardiology at Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy, where he currently serves as staff physician.

Dr. Sharlene Day

Dr. Sharlene Day graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her MD degree from New York University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Euan Angus Ashley

Born and raised in Scotland, Dr. Euan Angus Ashley graduated with 1st class Honors in Physiology and Medicine from the University of Glasgow. He completed medical residency and a PhD in molecular cardiology at the University of Oxford before moving to Stanford University.

Dr. Steven Colan

Dr. Steven Colan graduated with a degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and got his MD degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed his Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1984.

Dr. Olivotto

Trained in Florence and London, Dr. Olivotto has pursued a career in Emergency Medicine and subsequently in Cardiology at Careggi University Hospital in Florence, Italy, where he currently serves as staff physician.

Dr. Michelle Michels

Dr. Michelle Michels studied medicine at the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium. After graduating with great honor she completed her internal medicine residency in Leuven.

Dr. Carolyn Ho

Dr. Carolyn Ho is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Gunnarsson

Dr. Gunnarsson studied medicine at the University of Iceland. He completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Sahlgrenska Hospital Gothenburg Sweden and graduated with a PhD degree from the University of Gothenburg.

John Lynn Jefferies

John Lynn Jefferies, MD, MPH, is Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is also an attending Heart Failure Cardiologist at the University of Cincinnati Hospital and the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. He specializes in advanced heart failure and cardiomyopathy care of both children and adults.

Dr. Daniel Jacoby

Daniel Jacoby graduated from Yale College and Yale School of Medicine. He was a resident and chief resident in internal medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and did his cardiology training at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Jacoby joined the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine in 2009 where he is the Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program.

Dr. James Ware

James Ware is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London and Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, with a special interest in inherited cardiac conditions.

Dr. Alexandre Pereira

Dr. Alexandre Pereira holds a Bachelor's of Medicine from the Universidade de São Paulo (1999) and doctorate of Cardiology from the Universidade de São Paulo (2008). He has experience in Molecular Medicine and Cardiology, focusing on Predictive Medicine.

Professor Semsarian

Professor Semsarian is a cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; a Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney; and Head of the Molecular Cardiology Program at the Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia.

Executive DCM:

Dr. Victoria Parikh

Dr. Parikh is cardiologist specializing in the care of patients with inherited cardiovascular diseases. She completed clinical cardiology fellowship at Stanford School of Medicine and her medical residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Funded by research grant from the NIH, she currently studies multiple causes of cardiomyopathy in the laboratory. She has a particular clinical and scientific interest in inherited arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, which are an increasingly recognized disease entity. Dr. Parikh is currently using patient cohort genetics, high throughput molecular biology and human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to study variant pathogenicity in this disease.

Dr. Neal Lakdawala

Dr. Lakdawala is a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He received his medical degree from The University of Texas HSCSA. He completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular disease at BWH and a master’s degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lakdawala is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. His clinical expertise includes cardiomyopathy, cardiac sarcoidosis, congestive heart failure, cardiovascular genetics and heart transplantation. Dr. Lakdawala’s research and peer-reviewed publications investigate early phenotypes in genetic cardiomyopathy to identify physiology-based therapeutics for heart failure.

Dr. Sanjay Prasad

Dr. Prasad’s primary field of interest is myocarditis and cardiomyopathy, and the use of MRI in early detection and diagnosis. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, a journal that produces articles on all aspects of basic, translational and clinical research on the design, development, manufacturing, and evaluation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) methods applied to the cardiovascular system. He is also a member of the International Myocarditis Consensus Panel and is part of the Fulbright Selection Committee.

Dr. Stephane Heymans

Dr. Heymans is Professor of Cardiomyopathies and Head of the Centre for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University. He obtained his Medical Degree from the KULeuven (Belgium) in 1995 and went on to get a PhD in Medical Sciences in 2000, studying the role of proteinases in acute myocardial infarction. In 2003, He joined the Cardiology Department University Hospital of Maastricht (The Netherlands) as an academic medical specialist and in 2006 he took over the Multidisciplinary Cardiomyopathy Program (Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology and Pathology departments).
In 2008 he established his independent research laboratory at Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht. His research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms of heart failure, looking at the interplay between inflammatory cells, fibroblasts and cardiomyocytes. Particular focus is on the role of non-structural matrix proteins, matrix turnover and non-coding RNAs.

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