Eugene Braunwald MD, MACC

Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC, is the Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He attended New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as chief of cardiology and clinical director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and was the founding chair of medicine at the University of California, San Diego. From 1972 to 1996, he served as chair of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA.