BOSTON—This is a must watch interview for anyone interested in taking care of their heart. Whether you have a heart problem or not, world-renowned heart and cardiovascular specialist Dr. Mandeep Mehra, MD, MSc, FRCP (London) talks about heart-related issues in simple, easy-to-understand language.
In an exclusive video interview with INDIA New England News, Dr. Mehra touches on important heart-care points, including denial, silent heart attacks, simple calcium tests and past and future of heart care.
On Nov. 15, 2024, Dr. Mehra will be honored with the “Healthcare Pioneer Award” at the New England Choice Awards Gala at the Burlington Marriott Hotel in Burlington, MA. The event will be attended by over 400 business and community leaders, academics, philanthropists and medical and technology professionals. To buy a ticket for the gala, please click here.
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Dr. Mehra holds the William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine, serves as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He was the founding Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital from 2013 to 2019 and served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation from 2010 to 2020, during which time the journal rose to the #1 ranking in its field.
Dr. Mehra is the only individual to have served as President of both the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in 2008 and the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), the two leading societies in advanced heart disease. He has authored over 500 scholarly papers, with a focus on advanced heart failure. Among his notable contributions, he discovered the obesity paradox in heart failure, described the natural history of cardiac allograft vasculopathy post-transplantation, established international guidelines for the selection and care of transplant patients, defined the role of new immunosuppressive therapies to improve transplant outcomes, and introduced genomic-based biomarkers for evaluating cardiac allograft rejection.
In recent years, Dr. Mehra’s research has focused on the development of novel left ventricular assist devices (“artificial heart pumps”) designed to reduce adverse effects and expand their use in a broader patient population. This work, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has led to the introduction of novel therapies for advanced heart failure, significantly impacting clinical practice worldwide.
Dr. Mehra also holds a certificate in Executive Leadership from Harvard Business School and earned a Master of Science in Health Economics and Management from the London School of Economics in 2018 as a “Braunwald Scholar”. In 2024, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Heart Failure Society of America.
