Excited to kick off new role today as interim chief of cardiology in @MGHMedicine & co-director of the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center (aka @MGHHeartHealth) w Dr. Thor Sundt.
Patrick Ellinor
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Chief of Cardiology @MGHHeartHealth
Director, CV Disease Initiative @broadinstitute
CV research mixed w weekend projects around the house
- Excited to report that our latest work using snRNAseq to dissect the molecular basis of end-stage DCM and HCM is now published @Nature. Large collaborative effort led by the incredibly talented Mark Chaffin @broadinstitute.
- Delighted to announce that @JSawallaGusehMD has been selected as the Director of the Cardiac Performance Program @MGHHeartHealth.
- Honored to be the recipient of the Ralph Lazzara Award at #HRS2022. Thanks to @HRSonline for supporting my first fellowship award on AF genetics in 2001 and for ongoing support of #EPeeps.
- Happy to report our initial analysis of the recent release of exome sequencing data on 200K participants in @uk_biobank. Terrific work by Sean Jurgens, Seung Hoan Choi, @valerie_morrill and led by @steven_lubitz from @MGHHeartHealth & @broadinstitute.
- Ever wonder how many cell types are in the human heart? Answer in large snRNA-seq study led by @NR_Tucker, Mark Chaffin and team now out in @CircAHA. Thanks to great collaboration bw @broadinstitute and @BayerPharma w @CMStegmann. Details: ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.116…
- Geneformer has landed! Out now @nature, latest work by the incredibly talented @Theodorislab on using transfer learning to drive predictions in network biology:
- Huge congratulations to @pnatarajanmd from @MGHHeartHealth & @broadinstitute on being the recipient of the Joseph Vita award at #AHA23!
- Happy to share our latest work out now in @NatureMedicine: Led by the incredibly talented @nauffal_victor, @MarcusKlarqvist, our @broad_ml4h team @broadinstitute used T1 images from the @uk_biobank to assess fibrosis in multiple organs.
- Happy to report our team’s latest work on transcriptional diversity in the human heart. snRNAseq in 280k nuclei reveals 9 major cell types and more than 20 subtypes. Great collaboration bw @BayerPharma & @broadinstitute. More details at:
- Best part of the new role is celebrating the success of our faculty @MGHHeartHealth. Huge congratulations to @GLewisCardiol who was named as the inaugural incumbent of the Jeffrey & Mary Ellen Jay Endowed Chair in Heart Failure during a reception last night.
- Great online class by @MarkRober for 11yo future engineer. Father-son project to build a ball return / treat dispenser for our dog.
00:00 - Delighted to announce that @MoussaMansour10 will be the next Clinical Director of the Demoulas Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias @MGHHeartHealth!
- Out now, third in a series of manuscripts studying the human aorta. Combining ML & imaging data from @uk_biobank to study spatial and genetic complexity of the aorta and link to risk of aneurysm and aortic stenosis.







