Eugene Braunwald, MD is the Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He served as the first Chief of the Cardiology Branch and Clinical Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and founding Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to Harvard.
Dr. Braunwald’s early work focused on the control of ventricular function and he was the first to measure both left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular dp/dt in patients. His group showed the first neurohumoral defect in human heart failure, defined the pathophysiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and demonstrated salvage of ischemic myocardium following coronary occlusion. For the past 24 years, as chairman of the TIMI Study Group, he and his colleagues demonstrated improved patient survival with a patent coronary artery which led to the widely accepted "open artery hypotheses." Dr. Braunwald is and has been an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine for 12 editions, and the founding editor of Heart Disease.
Science Watch listed Dr. Braunwald as the most frequently cited author in Cardiology; he has an H index of 175. Dr. Braunwald was the first cardiologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
