Noyan Gokce, MD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Noyan Gokce, MD is Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Director of Echocardiography at Boston Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). He is board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Adult Echocardiography. He is recipient of the “Excellence in Clinical Teaching” award in 2006, 2011, 2017, and 2019 in the Cardiovascular Division. He has been awarded the “Collaborator of the Year” award in Clinical/Translational Sciences at BMC, as well as First Prize in Clinical Research at the Evans Memorial Dept. of Medicine 100th Anniversary Celebration. Dr. Gokce’s translational research focuses on elucidating mechanisms of vascular dysfunction in obesity and metabolic diseases, using both basic and clinical approaches. His laboratory has been NIH funded for 20 consecutive years and he is currently the principal investigator on several NIH R01 grants that study the relationships between dysfunctional adipose tissue in human fat stores and cardiometabolic dysfunction. These studies also seek to characterize pathogenic links between obesity, perivascular adipose remodeling, insulin resistance, inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and angiogenesis, and investigate how medical and bariatric surgical weight loss interventions regulate adipose tissue metabolism and micro- and macro-vascular phenotypes.

Publications

  • Published 7/30/2024

    Ahmed B, Farb MG, Gokce N. Cardiometabolic implications of adipose tissue aging. Obes Rev. 2024 Nov; 25(11):e13806. PMID: 39076025.

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  • Published 4/25/2024

    Schlezinger JJ, Gokce N. Perfluoroalkyl/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Links to Cardiovascular Disease Risk. Circ Res. 2024 Apr 26; 134(9):1136-1159. PMID: 38662859.

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  • Published 10/18/2023

    Ahmed B, Farb MG, Karki S, D'Alessandro S, Edwards NM, Gokce N. Pericardial Adipose Tissue Thrombospondin-1 Associates With Antiangiogenesis in Ischemic Heart Disease. Am J Cardiol. 2024 Jan 01; 210:201-207. PMID: 37863116.

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  • Published 9/19/2023

    Chavkin NW, Vippa T, Jung C, McDonnell S, Hirschi KK, Gokce N, Walsh K. Obesity accelerates endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in adipose tissues of mice and humans. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023; 10:1264479. PMID: 37795485.

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  • Published 1/1/2023

    Balakrishnan B, Gupta A, Basri R, Sharma VM, Slayton M, Gentner K, Becker CC, Karki S, Muturi H, Najjar SM, Loria AS, Gokce N, Puri V. Endothelial-Specific Expression of CIDEC Improves High-Fat Diet-Induced Vascular and Metabolic Dysfunction. Diabetes. 2023 Jan 01; 72(1):19-32. PMID: 36256836.

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Other Positions

  • Member, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute
    Boston University
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
    Boston University
  • Full Member, Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
    Boston University Medical Center

Education

  • Tufts University School of Medicine, MD
  • Brandeis University, BA