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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 a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Her top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), Heart Transplant, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Dr. Neal K. Lakdawala is a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).Dr. Lakdawala received his medical degree from The University of Texas HSCSA. He completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular disease at BWH and a master’s degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lakdawala is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.His clinical expertise includes cardiomyopathy, cardiac sarcoidosis, congestive heart failure, cardiovascular genetics and heart transplantation. Dr. Lakdawala’s research and peer-reviewed publications investigate early phenotypes in genetic cardiomyopathy to identify physiology-based therapeutics for heart failure. He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Heart Failure Network. Dr. Lakdawala is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy. His top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Heart Transplant, and Cardiac Ablation.

Peter Chiotellis is a Cardiologist in Hyannis,, Massachusetts. Dr. Chiotellis is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy. His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Adenosine Deaminase 2 Deficiency, Necrosis, Mitral Valve Prolapse, and Pacemaker Implantation.