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Dr. Eugene Braunwald is Vice President for Academic Programs at Partners HealthCare System, the parent corporation of the Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals affiliation. At Harvard Medical School, he is the Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Academic Programs at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals. From 1972 to 1996 he was Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Dr. Braunwald received his medical training at New York University and completed his Medical Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has served as both Chief of the Cardiology Branch and Clinical Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and as the founding Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California-San Diego. Dr. Braunwald is the only cardiologist who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of Professors of Medicine. He has received numerous honours and awards including the Research Achievement, Herrick and Academic Mentorship Awards of the American Heart Association, the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American College of Cardiology, the Phillip’s Award of the American College of Physicians, the Williams Award of the Association of Professors of Medicine and the Kober medal of the Association of American Physicians. He is the recipient of eight honorary degrees from distinguished universities throughout the world. In 1996 Harvard University created the Eugene Braunwald Professorship in Medicine as a permanently endowed chair. In 1999 the American Heart Association created the Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award as a permanent annual award.
Dr. Braunwald is the author of more than 1000 publications and an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, (Editor-in-Chief of the 11th Edition and the 15th Edition, currently in preparation) and the founding editor/author of Heart Disease, now in its 6th Edition. These two books are the leading texts in internal medicine and cardiology respectively. Dr. Braunwald has been Chairman of the TIMI trials since 1984 and he has led the SAVE and CARE trials.
Dr. Zipes received his B.A. cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1961, his M.D. cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1964 and his postgraduate training at Duke University Medical Center from 1964 to 1968. He joined Indiana University in 1970 and became Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, in 1994, and Director of the Cardiology Division and Krannert Institute of Cardiology in 1995.
He is on the Board of Directors/Trustees of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, of which he is past president, the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Institute for Clinical Evaluation. He recently served terms on the Board of Directors/Trustees of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. He is past president of the Association of University Cardiologists, chairman of the subspecialty board on Cardiovascular Disease and past chairman of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Test Writing Committee, both for the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Zipes is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and Cardiology in Review. He is on the editorial board of many cardiology journals and has published almost 600 articles and 11 books.
He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association in 1989, the Distinguished Scientist Award in 1995 from the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, the Distinguished Scientist Award in 1996 from the American College of Cardiology, and the Herrick Award from the American Heart Association in 1997. His trainees have won first place in young investigator award competitions on four occasions and second or third place three times. He is Vice President Elect of the American College of Cardiology.
Peter Libby, M.D., is the Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He conducts research and directs the Vascular Medicine and Atherosclerosis Unit at BWH. He also serves as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Libby is a member of the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He has also served in many roles as a volunteer for the American Heart Association, including Chairmanship of several research committees and membership in the Executive Committees of the Councils on Arteriosclerosis, Circulation, and Basic Science. He has also served as a frequent consultant to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, currently serving on the Board of Scientific Councilors. He is the recipient of a Merit Award from the Institute.
Dr. Libby earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Diego and completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (currently Brigham and Women's Hospital). He also holds an honorary Master of Arts Degree from Harvard University.
