Author(s):
Carl Streed
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1 year ago
EASD 2023 – Dr Carl G Streed (Boston University School of Medicine, US) joins us to summarise healthcare disparities among the LGBTQ+ population.In this interview, Dr Streed discusses the available evidence and explains the minority stress model. This model suggests that experiences of discrimination and stress contribute to worse health outcomes in the LGBTQ community. This can lead to mental…
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Personal History
Dr Aaron Isaacs is based in the Netherlands, where he works in the Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht at Maastricht University.
Academic History
Dr Aaron Isaacs completed his baccalaureate degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. In 2002, he moved to the Netherlands, where he embarked on his PhD studies in genetic…
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Job title: Director of Preventive Cardiology
Dr Pradeep Natarajan is Director of Preventive Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
Dr Natarajan researches the inherited basis of human atherosclerosis using genetic epidemiology, large-scale sequencing studies, genotype-driven human investigation, and genetic…
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Job title: Senior Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr Paul M Ridker is director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, a translational research unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). A cardiovascular medicine specialist, he is also the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard School of Medicine (HMS).
Dr Ridker received his medical degree from HMS. He then completed an internal medicine residency and a cardiology…
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Job title: St Peter’s Chair of Nephrology, University College London, London, UK
Professor Daniel Gale is a distinguished nephrologist who trained at Cambridge University and pursued postgraduate training in Nephrology in London, completing a PhD under the mentorship of Patrick Maxwell. Since 2018, he has held the St Peter’s Chair of Nephrology at University College London (UCL), where he leads the Centre for Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Renal Medicine.Professor…
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Job title: Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology, and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Jane Armitage, FRCP, FFPH, OBE, is Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine and also Director of Training and Career Development for the Nuffield Department of Population Health. She works on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and has led large-scale randomized controlled trials.
Dr Armitage is Chief Investigator for the BHF-supported…
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Job title: Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program
Personal History
Dr Gary Matthew Hunninghake is a Pulmonologist and Genetic Epidemiologist based in Boston, MA.
Academic History
In 1999, Dr Hunninghake received his M.D. from the University of Iowa College of Medicine (now the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine). He then completed a Residency in Internal Medicine and a Chief Residency (1999 - 2002) at the Medical…
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