Dr. Christine E. Seidman

Dr. Christine E. Seidman is the director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Program and a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). In addition, she is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.She received her medical degree from The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed an internal medicine residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Seidman is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. Her clinical interests include cardiovascular medicine and genetics.Dr. Seidman also leads the Seidman Laboratory to elucidate genetic causes for heart disease and other disorders. Notable achievements include the discovery of the first genetic cause of congenital heart malformations. Dr. Seidman promotes collaboration between the Laboratory and the BWH Cardiovascular Genetics Center to translate research discoveries into better diagnostics and improved management strategies. She has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles and received research funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Seidman is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chagas Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), Heart Transplant, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 277 peer reviewed articles and participating in 2 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 4 articles in the study of Chagas Disease.