For Immediate Release: July 1, 2001
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Boston Heart Doctor Named to Head Cardiology at Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH - Distinguished heart researcher and physician Michael Simons, M.D., has been named section chief of cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.
"Dr. Simons' expertise and record of accomplishment add to the strengths of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, " said John C. Baldwin, M.D., DMS dean and Dartmouth College vice president for health Affairs, who announced the appointment. "We are pleased to welcome him to our Dartmouth community."
Simons joins the faculty as professor of medicine from Harvard and Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, where he has been an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cardiovascular Angiogenesis Research Center and the Coronary Care Unit at Beth Israel.
Recognized for his research in angiogenesis, in the molecular biology of smooth muscle, and in acute coronary care, Simons has authored more than 100 articles and received a NIH Career Development Award, as well as an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, of the American College of Cardiology, and of the AHA Council on Thrombosis, Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology, and a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigations. Moreover, he serves as editorial consultant to several professional journals, among them The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Circulation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Biological Chemistry.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simons received his medical degree, cum laude, from Yale in 1984. He took his residency training at the New England Medical Center, Boston, then was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute before joining the Beth Israel in 1989 and Harvard in 1991.
