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Christine Seidman, MD

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Contact

Christine Seidman, MD: cseidman@gentics.med.harvard.edu Susanne Bartlett (admin asst): Bartlett@genetics.med.harvard.edu

Website

http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/%7Eseidman

Biography

Christine (Kricket) Seidman is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 2005 she was named the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine. She is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was an undergraduate at Harvard College and received a M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1978. Dr. Seidman served as an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at John Hopkins Hospital and received subspecialty training in cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1987 and is currently the Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center.

Honors include: Marion Hypertension Research Award (1984); American Heart Association Clinician-Scientist Award (1986); Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Cardiovascular Research Grant Award (1990); American Heart Association Established Investigatorship Award (1992); Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award in Cardiovascular Research (1992); American Heart Association, Edgar Haber Cardiovascular Award (1997); American Heart Association, Helen B. Taussig Memorial Lecturer (1997); Member, Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars (1998); Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999); Member, Institutes of Medicine (1999); American Heart Association, Basic Research Prize (1999); Gill Heart Institute Award for Cardiovascular Research (2000); American College of Cardiology, Louis F. Bishop Lecture (2000); Gill Heart Institute Award for Cardiovascular Research (2001); 12th Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research (joint recipient with Jonathan Seidman, PhD) (2002); Fellow, International Society Heart Research (2002); Distinguished Scientist, American Heart Association (2003); Cannon Award, American Physiologic Society (2004); Member, Association of University Cardiologists (2005); Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, The George Washington University (2005); Member, National Academy of Sciences (2005) and the Grand Prix Lefoulon-Delalande Institut de France 2007 jointly with Jonathan Seidman, PhD .

Publications

  1. Seidman JG, Seidman CE. The Genetic Basis for Cardiomyopathy: From Mutation Identification to Mechanistic Paradigms. Cell (Review). 2001;104:557-567.
  2. Schmitt JP, Kamisago M, Asahi M, Li GH, Ahmad F, Mende U, Kranias EG, MacLennan DH, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure caused by a mutation in Phospholamban. Science. 2003;299:1410-1413.
  3. Arad M, Moskowitz IP, Paterl VV, Ahmad F, Perez-Atayde AR, Sawyer DB, Walter M, Li G-H, Burgon PG, Maguire CT, Stapleton D, Schmitt JP, Guo XX, Pizard A, Kuperschmidt S, Roden DM, Berul CI, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Transgenic mice over-expressing mutant PRKAG2 define the cause of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome in glycogen storage cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2003;107:2850-2856.
  4. Arad M, Maron BJ, Gorham JM, Johnson WH, Saul JP, Perez-Atayde AR, Spirito P, Wright, GB, Kanter RJ, Seidman CE and Seidman JG. Glycogen storage diseases presenting as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. New Engl. J Med. 2005;352(4):362-372.
  5. Kim JB, Porreca GJ, Song L, Greenway S, Gorham JM, Church GM, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Polony multiplex analysis of gene expression (PMAGE) of the adult mouse heart. Science. 2007; In Press
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Last updated 10/19/2007.