Dr Thomas Gaziano

Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, United States of America

Thomas A. Gaziano M.D., M.Sc. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr Gaziano has graduated from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He completed residency and fellowship training in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease respectively at BWH.

He is the Director of both the Global Health Policy and Prevention Unit within the Cardiovascular Division at BWH where he integrates innovative prevention programs in clinical services. He holds a secondary appointment at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health where he works at the Center for Health Decision Science. The focus of his work at the Center is the application of his CVD PREDICT model to evaluate health outcomes, financial impacts, and the cost-effectiveness of CVD intervention strategies.

Dr Gaziano is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and is a Board Member of The World Heart Federation (WHF). He served as a co-editor of the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Volume of the Disease Control Priorities Project in Developing Countries supported by the Gates Foundation. His current work funded by the NIH includes seeking innovations in risk assessment and management strategies in the United States and low and middle-income countries. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and textbook chapters.