Posts by Michael H. Picard, MD
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Results of the ISCHEMIA trial, a Late-Breaking Science Session from the 2019 AHA Meeting
Michael Picard, MD, cardiologist in the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, discusses the outcomes of the ISCHEMIA trial, for which he interpreted the stress echocardiograms. The trial studied the benefits of medical therapy or more invasive strategies for patients with stable forms of ischemic heart disease.
Biography
Staff Cardiologist at Mass General and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the immediate Past Director of Echocardiography at Mass General. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. He is a Past-President of the American Society of Echocardiography. He has been awarded the Young Investigator Award from the American College of Cardiology and the Richard Popp Award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Society of Echocardiography. He has been selected several times as one of the Best Cardiologists in Boston by Boston Magazine.
His research interests are in the novel applications of echocardiography in coronary artery disease, translational cardiology and valvular heart disease. He is recognized as an authority on Arrhythmogenic RV Dysplasia. He has helped develop the Appropriateness Criteria for Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography and those for Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in Heart Failure in addition to numerous other guideline papers.
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