BUSM Professor Selected as Recipient of the 2012 Epidemiology and Prevention Mentoring Award

Vasan Ramachadran, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the section of preventive medicine and epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has been named the 2012 recipient of the Epidemiology and Prevention Mentoring Award. The award was presented at the Council Dinner at the American Heart Association (AHA)’s Epidemiology and Prevention 2012 Scientific Sessions in San Diego on March 15.

This award, sponsored by the AHA Council’s Early Career Committee, honors a person who has provided exceptional individual and institutional mentoring and advocacy for cardiovascular epidemiology researchers. Ramachadran was recognized for his exceptional mentoring and volunteerism on behalf of the AHA.

Ramachadran received his medical degree and doctor of medicine in cardiology from the India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. A fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the AHA, he is a senior investigator and director of the echocardiography and vascular testing laboratory at the Framingham Heart Study where he also directs the fellowship program in cardiovascular epidemiology. In addition to authoring numerous papers, he is a past recipient of a mid-career clinical investigator award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and has received several R01 project grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Ramachadran has mentored over 50 trainees over the last 20 years, many of whom have gone on to receive NIH career development awards and RO1/AHA grants.