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Dr. Newton-Cheh earned a BA from Dartmouth College in 1991. He attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1992 to 1996. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology from 1996 to 2001 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he subsequently served as medical chief resident from 2001-2002. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in complex trait genetics at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT (originally the Whitehead Institute Center for Genetic Research) with Joel N. Hirschhorn, MD, PhD and in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Framingham Heart Study with Christopher J. O’Donnell, MD, MPH from 2002 to 2007. He obtained a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.
Dr. Newton-Cheh is on the faculty of the Center for Human Genetic Research and the Cardiovascular Research Center, where he co-directs the Human Cardiovascular Genetics Program, both of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Newton-Cheh is a staff physician in the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Newton-Cheh receives support from the NIH, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. |
