A great weekend welcoming the new fellows to Brigham Heart! We cannot wait for you all to join us beginning in July! Welcome to Brigham Fellows 🫀🫀

1/ Our NEW study published JAHA

In pts w/ HFpEF, a higher NT-proBNP to cyclic GMP ratio was associated w/ a worse cardio-renal phenotype

A 🧵 on the Natriuretic Peptide System, lessons from the RELAX Trial & Implications for future HFpEF trials

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…

In patients with HFpEF, higher NT-proBNP to cGMP ratio was associated with an adverse cardio-renal phenotype. #AHAJournals ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…

It was great to talk to AJ Blood, MD, MS about his #ACC2024 late-breaking clinical trial, the DRIVE Study, and his advice for fellows in training interested in implementation trials

Had a great time presenting lipid targets and therapies at #ACC2024 with this wonderful team

Many congratulations to Robert W. Yeh MD who will be inducted tonight to the ASCI alongside Jennifer Ho after their election to ASCI Honor Society of physician-scientists!

Excellent Bornstein case presentations from our star colleagues! Bornstein case presentations are a favorite in the fellowship and CV department. We learn so much from our faculty and co-fellows Maxwell Coll, MD Avinainder Singh, MD, MMSc 🫀🫀🫀

Very appreciative of AHA Science support of our research program focused on evaluating and informing state and national health policies to advance cardiovascular health! BIDMC Smith Center

Congratulations to Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP on receiving the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award! AHA Science American Heart Association

Our JAMA study explores how a new health equity adjustment will impact hospital performance in Medicare's Value-Based Purchasing program

Top-line: Safety-net hospitals will experience a net + ⬆️ of ≈$30 million in payment adjustments
bit.ly/3xbpovX BIDMC Smith Center

Congratulations to our next class of interns! We're so excited to meet and work with you! 🥳🙌

Lisa is one the most brilliant, thought-provoking, & incisive medical writers of our times. She's also a wonderful friend.

I can't wait to witness her take BIDMC Smith Center to new heights as she leads the Academy for Narrative & Critical Inquiry as our inaugural Writer-in-Residence!

We are delighted to announce that Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP has joined the leadership team of the Smith Center as an Associate Director! Please join us in congratulating him on this exciting new role.

Thrilled to share our latest work in NEJM AI, introducing the concept of 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻!

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Univ of Toronto Urology Temerty Centre for AI in Medicine (T-CAIREM) U of T Department of Surgery The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

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Hospital participation in the BPCI Model 2 Heart Failure program was not associated with improvement in process-of-care measures or in 30-day or 90-day rates of readmission or mortality. ja.ma/4aWazgr

🚨New in Annals of Int Med🚨

Led by BIDMC IM Residency's Casey Kim we examined primary prevention statin use across 20 years...finding:
➡️ Statin use has plateaued since 2013
➡️ < 40% of eligible patients receiving statins
➡️ Use is low regardless of estimated CV risk

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

Could not be more proud of my twin brother Leonard Chiu, MD MS on the cardiology match!

Grateful to mom and dad for supporting us and rooting for us every step of the way

Excited to come visit and watch Luka Doncic & Dallas Mavericks 🤌🤠

So excited to match UTSW Cardiology Fellowship for cardiology fellowship!

HUGE thanks to my mentors VUMC Department of Medicine Columbia Medicine @DrJohnMcP #DeepakGupta #AndrewDeFilippis #RobPiana #LynneStevenson mathew.maurer

Ultimate gratitude to my friends & family Nicholas Chiu, MD MPH for everything ❤️

Very excited about this! I've been incredibly fortunate to work with truly *exceptional* mentors, colleagues, collaborators, trainees, and students, who all made this possible. Thankful for my family and friends.

'The Team, The Team, The Team'

So well-deserved on this promotion. Thanks for being such an exceptional mentor to so many of us, but more importantly, being such an amazing human Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP