Medicare Advantage claims were found to perform at least as well as Medicare fee-for-service claims for assessing most comorbidities and all selected long-term outcomes after #TAVR in the Evolut Low-Risk trial. Christina Lalani Robert W. Yeh in Circ: CQO: doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOU…

A great showing from our fellows at #ACC25

That’s a wrap on #ACC25 with this exceptional group of BIDMC Smith Center research trainees and BIDMC CV Fellowship

Some highlights from our fellows’ poster presentations at #ACC25

A privilege to represent BIDMC Smith Center in presenting our work on the final analysis of SAFE-PAD at #ACC25! A monumental effort by Eric Secemsky MD MSc, Robert W. Yeh and team to show the safety of peripheral drug-coated devices. Great company, great food, great times!

One of our favorite #ACC traditions is an annual dinner with our fellowship program director #ACC25

Just spotted: four T32 fellows learning about poisson regression for their Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Masters!

🚩#HRS2025 : Thrilled to win the 2025 BIOTRONIK US International Research Competition! I look forward to our collaboration with BIDMC Smith Center to link #Medicare claims and #CIED remote monitoring data across the US to study real-world outcomes for patients with VT, AF and more!

Thank you MyJSCAI for the opportunity to discuss our review on the evolving role of transcatheter aspiration for endocarditis, an exciting area with significant clinical and research potential.

Fellow representation at #ISHLT2025

Our very own chief and T32 fellow Christina Lalani knocked it out of the park with her rapid fire talk at the BIDMC CVI research retreat! She studied differences in characteristics and outcomes between Medicare Advantage and Fee-For-Service models for patients undergoing TAVR.

Congress has proposed deep cuts to SNAP, which provides food benefits to >40 million Americans Our new JAMA study finds that ⬇️SNAP benefits not only ⬆️ food insecurity, but also leads to significant ⬆️ poor physical health BIDMC Smith Center jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Congratulations to Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD on co-authoring this important JAMA study evaluating how ⬇️ SNAP benefits could impact food insecurity, physical health, and mental health for millions of Americans with low-incomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

At the end of every academic year, the F1’s and F2’s have a half day retreat with our program leadership to share feedback on the program and ideas for improvement. One of the highlights of the day is post-retreat sushi 🍣 with our program leadership and division chief!

Congratulations to our graduating T32 fellows, Lucas Marinacci, MD and Leah Kosyakovsky, for their (appropriately, Star Wars themed) grand rounds tracking their clinical and research trajectories in fellowship and beyond! Huge credit to their mentors, Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP Jennifer Ho!

Congrats to our BIDMC CV Fellowship grads! Omeralfaroug Adam Lauren Balkan Nicolas Isaza Joseph Kim, Christina Lalani, Christian Mewaldt, Nicholas Spetko Margot Yopes, John-Ross Clarke Ginger Jiang Matthew Murphy, Amir Sharon, Aaron Kunamalla, Emad Albayouk, & Mauro Wanderley Jr