Physician Profile
Flora Sam, MD
Academic Appointment:
Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA
Medical School:
- University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (1989)
Residency:
- Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York NY (1994)
Post Residency:
- Fellowship in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston MA (1996)
- Research Fellowship in Cardiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston MA (1998)
- Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship in Cardiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA (2000)
Board Certification:
- Internal Medicine
- Cardiovascular Disease
Special Interest(s):
- Cardiomyopathies
- Congestive heart failure
- Diastolic heart failure
Bio:
An associate professor of medicine. She is a current recipient of a NIH R01 to study the role of aldosterone in cardiac remodeling. She is also a past recipient of a Clinical Investigator Development Award from the NIH to study the role of oxidative stress in human heart failure. She also received a Beginning Grant-in-Aid from the American Heart Association. Her basic research interests focuses on mechanisms of ventricular remodeling in the failing heart, especially pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic mechanisms that mediate cardiac remodeling in heart failure and hypertension.
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Primary Address
88 East Newton Street
C-8
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-8060
Fax: (617) 638-8946
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