The goal of the NextGen Cardiovascular, Muscle & Metabolism Science Seminar is to highlight transdisciplinary precision research taking place in cardiovascular, muscle and metabolism fields; provide opportunities for collaboration among researchers to build their own research efforts; and promote clinical/researcher activity across the University of Missouri System and our partners.

The Franklin Endowed Lecture was created by the family and friends of Dean Franklin, former director of Dalton Cadiovascular Research Center (1980-1990), to commemorate Franklin's many contributions to cardiovascular science by highlighting new innovations and research in the field.

For questions about this event, please reach out to Mackenzie Lynch (lynchmm@health.missouri.edu).

"MASH: The New Kid in the Cardiorenal Metabolic Space Requiring Novel and Personalized Molecular Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches"

Speaker: Christos S. Mantzoros, M.D., D.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Date: Friday, Oct. 4, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Tom and Linda Atkins Family Seminar Room, Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building

About the Speaker

Christos S. Mantzoros, M.D, D.Sc., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has also served as a Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

He currently serves as the Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Boston VA Healthcare System, where he created a leading academic division true to its tripartite mission. He also serves as the Director of Human Nutrition which he had created at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School. He has performed groundbreaking research in several areas of nutrition and metabolism, has developed clinical programs and has grown people’s careers, has co-founded companies and published patents and he has presented and received awards at national and international meetings. Importantly, he is an active clinical endocrinologist practicing in the outpatient (two clinics per week) and inpatient settings including covering the call service. The clinical division he created for the VA Boston Healthcare System has expanded tremendously and covers several hospitals and clinic locations, is affiliated with Harvard, Boston University and Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Schools, and brings together in terms of clinical and education all VA endocrinologists up to the Canadian borders.

Dr. Mantzoros has received enormous recognition in the field. As some indices of his success to date, Dr. Mantzoros has published more than 1100 scientific papers i.e. 775 publications under his name in Medline in addition to more than 220 publications under the collaborative Look Ahead Research Group and more than 310 chapters and reviews or editorials. His corpus has received more than 168,800 citations with an H-index of 157 and an i10 index of 631 (Google Scholar).