Posts by Christopher Holmes Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH
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Leveraging Social Media in Medicine
A group from the Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center discusses how they leverage social media as both practicing clinicians and active researchers.
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Role of Genomics in Precision Medicine for Cardiovascular Disease
Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH, discusses how his team’s research contributes to a better understanding of how to treat patients with precision care by leveraging genetic information.
Biography
Dr. Newton-Cheh is a cardiologist in the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant section and the Cardiovascular Genetics Program of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiology Division and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He sees patients with advanced heart failure and patients undergoing genetic evaluation of potentially familial cardiomyopathies.
Dr. Newton-Cheh is a faculty member of the Center for Genomic Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Center. He is a complex trait geneticist and cardiovascular epidemiologist. The Newton-Cheh laboratory is focused on the study of hypertension, arrhythmias and heart failure. They are leveraging the growth of human genetics to identify DNA sequence variants that contribute to these common diseases, to translate these genetic findings to an improved understanding of human physiology through patient-oriented research and to define the role of genetic variants, alongside other clinical risk factors, in risk prediction at the population level.
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
At Mass General, our world-class physicians and nurses specialize in specific forms of both heart and vascular disease, and work closely together to offer leading treatments and preventive care for cardiovascular conditions.