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Dr. Ho is a cardiologist in the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Section at MGH, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As a physician-scientist, Jen is a faculty member of the Cardiovascular Research Center and maintains an affiliation with the Framingham Heart Study. Her laboratory is focused on clinical and translational patient-oriented investigations to understand mechanisms driving heart failure and cardiometabolic disease, with a particular focus on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Jen has mentored over 15 trainees in her laboratory and is a recipient of the MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award and multiple NIH grants to support her research laboratory. She was awarded the 2018 Inaugural MGH Medicine Residency Excellence in Mentoring Award and the 2018 Brian McGovern Memorial Teaching Award. Jen currently serves on the Steering Committee for the MGH NIH cardiovascular T32 training grant, as well as the Scientific Board of the Sarnoff Foundation, an organization devoted to mentoring young investigators.
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Short bursts of physical exercise induce changes in the body’s levels of metabolites that correlate to, and may help gauge, an individual’s cardiometabolic, cardiovascular and long-term health.
New research by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reveals considerable uncertainty in how to care for patients with a certain type of heart attack.
Study reveals reveals women with premature menopause often exhibit certain blood cell changes that elevate their risk of developing coronary artery disease.
Mass General and Newton-Wellesley Hospital staff have been working together for the past eight months to ensure a safe, efficient and thoughtful transition plan for the more than 600 anticoagulation patients who will now receive their care at the MGH AMS Clinic.
When asked about his experience in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, second-year fellow and aspiring academic cardiac electrophysiologist Daniel Pipilas, MD, says “even in this short time, there are a few people who really stick out as great mentors.”
Elevated levels of a little-known lipoprotein in the blood that may put people at high risk of cardiovascular disease can be as accurately detected by genetic testing as by conventional laboratory measurement.
