Dr. Christine E. Seidman is the Director of Cardiovascular Genetics Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her groundbreaking work combines basic research and clinical practice to uncover genetic causes of heart disease. She discovered the first genetic cause of congenital heart malformations and identified genes responsible for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Seidman fosters collaboration between her lab and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiovascular Genetics Center to translate discoveries into improved diagnostics and management strategies. She is a distinguished member of various prestigious scientific organizations and has received numerous awards for her influential research, published in top-tier journals.