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Dr. Aaron B. Waxman is the director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.After receiving his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Waxman completed a residency in internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. He then completed two fellowships: the first at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the second in pulmonary and critical care at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is board certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary disease.Dr. Waxman’s clinical interests include pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), right heart failure, thromboembolic disease and pulmonary vascular disease. His research focuses on the inflammatory mechanisms of pulmonary vascular remodeling that lead to right heart failure. His research into the regulation of cell death proteins by IL-6 cytokines in mice led to the discovery of a relationship between dyspnea and mitochondrial dysfunction, and resulted in additional clinical studies examining the abnormalities of inflammatory mediators and oxygen extraction in patients with PAH. He has authored over 110 peer-reviewed publications and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr. Waxman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Interstitial Lung Disease, Lung Transplant, and Thrombectomy.

Dr. Jane A. Leopold is the director of the Women's Interventional Cardiology Health Initiative at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). An interventional cardiovascular medicine specialist, she is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).She received her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and two fellowships at Boston Medical Center—cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. Dr. Leopold is board certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology.Dr. Leopold developed the Women’s Interventional Cardiology Health Initiative at BWH, which uses advanced invasive diagnostic imaging and functional assessment devices to diagnose chest pain syndromes in women. The author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Leopold’s research interests include preclinical and clinical studies in pulmonary arterial hypertension and she is the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health funded center at BWH to perform deep phenotyping in patients with Groups 1-5 pulmonary hypertension. She also studies mechanisms by which aldosterone influences vascular structure and function and cardiovascular disease in women. Her research has received support from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. Dr. Leopold is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Hypertension, Hypertension, Heart Attack, Angioplasty, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

Indranee Rajapreyar is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and a Cardiologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Rajapreyar is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Heart Failure, Cardiogenic Shock, Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, Heart Transplant, and Aortic Valve Replacement. Dr. Rajapreyar is currently accepting new patients.