Christine Seidman, MD is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was an undergraduate at Harvard College and received an M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine. After clinical training in Internal Medicine at John Hopkins Hospital Seidman received subspecialty training in cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Seidman practices at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she is the founding Director of the BWH Cardiovascular Genetics Center. Composed of a multidisciplinary team of physicians and scientists, the BWH Cardiovascular Genetics Center provides unparalleled care to patients with cardiomyopathies and their families. Through her translation of basic science discoveries, the BWH Cardiovascular Genetics Center has transformed the clinical diagnosis and management of cardiomyopathies and is defining innovative treatment strategies.