The Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont hosted a lecture by CVRI Visiting Professor Ali J. Marian, M.D., titled “’Ariadne Auf Naxos’ and the Riddle of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy,” at 12 p.m. on Monday, April 25, 2016 in the Sullivan Classroom in the University of Vermont College of Medicine's Larner Medical Education Center. Marian also led an Early Career Investigators Forum, which featured a discussion of topics of interest to early career investigators on Tuesday, April 26.
Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Genetic Research and the George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Distinguished Professor in Cardiovascular Research at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) at Houston, Marian is an internationally recognized expert in the genetics of cardiomyopathies.
He received his M.D from Tehran University in Iran and completed postdoctoral training in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and in cardiovascular medicine at Baylor College of Medicine through an American Heart Association-Bugher Foundation Fellowship. Marian was appointed to faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in 1992, and was appointed to the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine in 2006.
In addition to several prestigious awards received earlier in his career, Marian was selected as a recipient of a prestigious Clinician-Scientist Award in Translational Research from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. He has served in an editorial capacity for several major journals, including Circulation, Circulation Research, Journal of The American College of Cardiology, and continues to serve on the editorial board of Current Cardiology Reviews and Journal of Cardiac Failure and is the section editor for Genetics in Current Atherosclerosis Reports. The co-author of more than 100 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, Marian has delivered lectures on the genetics of cardiomyopathies at numerous major national and international meetings. In addition, he has been actively involved with National Institutes of Health grant review process and has been a member of the review committee on several panels and study sections.
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