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Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute honors Harvard cardiologist
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Cedars-Sinai Institute has honored Cardiology Today Editorial Board member Eugene Braunwald, MD, with the Eliot Corday, MD, International Prize in Heart Research.
Eugene Braunwald
Braunwald, Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the inaugural recipient of the prize. The Corday prize was established to recognize physicians and scientists conducting groundbreaking research that has or, likely, will change the practice of CV medicine. Braunwald has been a major force in cardiology. As founding chairman of the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he has changed practice guidelines and made significant contributions to improving prognosis and quality of life for patients with CVD.
“Dr. Braunwald’s impressive work opened the door to the entire field of modern heart-attack treatment. It is a true privilege to establish this award by presenting it to such a highly respected and distinguished physician-researcher,” Eduardo Marbán, MD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, stated in a press release.