Cardiology Grand Rounds - Sokolow Lecture - Rob Gerszten, MD

Robert E. Gerszten, MD

Robert E. Gerszten, MD is Chief of Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Herman Dana Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute.  Dr. Gerszten graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a clinical fellowship in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He also performed research fellowships at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco and the Cardiovascular Research Center at MGH.

Dr. Gerszten’s investigations focus on the nexus of cardiac and metabolic diseases.  His translational research program leverages metabolomics and proteomic technologies for the discovery of new biomarkers and pathways contributing to cardiovascular disease.  His highly interactive program collaborates across a spectrum of institutions, from the Broad Institute to the Framingham Heart Study, the Jackson Heart Study, the Diabetes Prevention Program and the NIH MoTrPAC (Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity) study, the largest exercise intervention study ever performed.

His work has been funded by the NIH and the American Heart Association, from whom he received an Established Investigator Award.  Dr. Gerszten is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Association of University Cardiologists.

He is the 2019 recipient of the Silen Lifetime Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School and the 2024 Paul Dudley White Award from the American Heart Association.