{"id":10709,"date":"2018-02-02T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:35:30","slug":"flora-sam-md-appointed-interim-director-of-the-whitaker-cardiovascular-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2018\/02\/02\/flora-sam-md-appointed-interim-director-of-the-whitaker-cardiovascular-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Flora Sam, MD, Appointed Interim Director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/florasam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medicine\/files\/2018\/02\/florasam.jpg\" alt=\"florasam\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10710\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Flora Sam, MD<\/strong>, Professor in the Section of Cardiology, has been appointed the Interim Director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, effective February 1.\u00a0She is replacing Kenneth Walsh, PhD, who has accepted a position at the University of Virginia. Dr. Sam serves as an advanced heart failure cardiologist and her research is\u00a0focused in cardiac myocyte biology and mechanistic underpinnings of cardiac remodeling in various disease states including heart failure, infiltrative cardiomyopathies and hypertension with a major focus on<em>\u00a0heart failure with preserved ejection fraction<\/em>\u00a0(HFpEF), also known previously as \u201cdiastolic failure heart failure.\u201d Dr. Sam, who is internationally recognized in the HFpEF field, is a physician-scientist and translational researcher whose research is bidirectional, going first from the patient and then to the basic laboratory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2018\/01\/26\/flora-sam-md-appointed-interim-director-of-the-whitaker-cardiovascular-institute\/\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/2018\/01\/26\/flora-sam-md-appointed-interim-director-of-the-whitaker-cardiovascular-institute\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flora Sam, MD, Professor in the Section of Cardiology, has been appointed the Interim Director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, effective February 1.\u00a0She is replacing Kenneth Walsh, PhD, who has accepted a position at the University of Virginia. Dr. Sam serves as an advanced heart failure cardiologist and her research is\u00a0focused in cardiac myocyte biology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10711,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions\/10711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}