Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
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Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
Dr. Joseph Loscalzo is physician-in-chief at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). A cardiovascular medicine specialist, he is also the Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine and Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
He received his medical degree from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed an internal medicine residency and a cardiovascular disease fellowship at BWH. He is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Loscalzo’s clinical and research interests include vascular biology, thrombosis, atherosclerosis and systems biology. His most recent work has established the field of network medicine, a discipline that seeks to redefine disease and therapeutics from an integrated perspective using systems biology and network science. He has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, authored over 500 peer-reviewed articles and holds 31 patents for his work in the field of nitric oxide and redox biology.
He is the recipient of several awards for his work as a cardiovascular scientist, clinician and teacher, including the Paul Dudley White Award from the American Heart Association. He is also the editor-in-chief of Circulation—the journal of the American Heart Association—a senior editor of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, a member of the Advisory Council of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Instutite, as well as a member of the Council of Councils of the National Institutes of Health. Castle Connolly has named him one of America’s Top Doctors.
Education & Training
- Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine, 1984
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cardiovascular Disease, 1983
- Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine, 1981
- Medical Education: University of Pennsylvania, 1978
Board Certifications
- Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Languages Spoken
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Railroad Medicare
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Medicare
- United Health Care
- Tufts Health Plan
- WellSense
- TriCare
- Cigna
- Multiplan
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Coventry
- Humana
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Fallon Health
- Medicaid ME
- Senior Whole Health
- MassHealth
- Aetna
- Medicaid VT
- Beech Street
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid NH