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Calum MacRae, MD, PhD, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Medicine. He began in the role on Oct. 1.
MacRae completed his residency at BWH in 1991 and returned as a member of the BWH Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in 2009. Since 2009, he has been active in the Cardiovascular Clinical Genetics Center and is clinical director of the emerging Genomic Medicine Program at BWH.
Outside of the division, MacRae serves as associate medical director for the Watkins Cardiovascular Clinic, co-chair of the Partners eCare Research Advisory Council and is a member of the Partners Academic Executive Committee. He is also an associate editor for the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation and senior associate editor of Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics.
In his new role, MacRae will join the oversight committee of the Heart and Vascular Center and be responsible for the direction of all aspects of the division’s multifaceted mission. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh School of Medicine, MacRae trained in internal medicine and cardiology in Edinburgh and London before attending Harvard Medical School in 1991, where he joined the laboratory of Jonathan Seidman, PhD, and Christine Seidman, MD, to work on the genetics of cardiomyopathy—the weakening of the heart muscle. An active physician-scientist, MacRae’s work includes the human genetics of cardiac and vascular disease, cardiovascular developmental biology and drug discovery. He is a committed clinician with an interest in the incorporation of genomics into clinical practice, among other clinical and research interests.
MacRae has a record of accomplishment as a clinician, scientist and educator, and his leadership will integrate all of the activities of the division. He succeeds Peter Libby, MD, who served as chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine since 1997.