Best Cardiologists and Heart Medicine Doctors in West Roxbury, MA

Dr. Benjamin Wessler, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in Boston, MA. He is 44 years old and has been practicing for 17 years. Dr. Benjamin Wessler, MD is affiliated with Tufts Medical Center.

Christopher Madias, MD is the Co-Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine. Dr. Madias specializes in the diagnosis and management of cardiac arrhythmias related to HCM, including catheter ablation techniques for atrial fibrillation and device therapy for prevention of sudden death. He has published numerous original scientific articles on arrhythmia management in cardiomyopathies, sudden death in athletes, and device therapy in top cardiology journals including Heart Rhythm, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and The American Journal of Cardiology.

Dr. Kapur is a dual, board-certified Interventional Cardiologist and Advanced Heart Failure/Cardiac Transplant specialist. He is Director of the Acute Circulatory Support Program and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Tufts Medical Center. His clinical expertise focuses on invasive hemodynamics, mechanical circulatory support, and interventional therapies for patients with advanced heart failure. He serves on several national committees involved with the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. As Director of the Interventional Research Laboratories at Tufts Medical , Dr. Kapur's translational research focuses on large animal models of acute and chronic heart failure, circulatory support device development, and cardioprotective mechanisms in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. His recent work has focused on the hypothesis that mechanically unloading the heart and delaying coronary reperfusion limits infarct size. This concept known as the 'mechanical conditioning hypothesis' has the potential to alter the paradigm of acute heart attack therapy and reduce the burden of ischemic heart failure. As Director of the Cardiac Biology Research Center within the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Kapur's basic science laboratory focuses on molecular mechanisms governing maladaptive cardiac remodeling in heart failure. His particular expertise involves signaling via the transforming growth factor beta (TGFb) system. Over the past 6 years, the laboratory has published several critical papers focused on a TGFb co-receptor known as endoglin and was the first to establish that reduced endoglin activity improves survival and limits maladaptive cardiac remodeling in heart failure. More recently, the laboratory has demonstrated that targeting endoglin using an antibody-mediated approach not only limits the development of cardiac fibrosis, but can reverse established cardiac fibrosis in preclinical models of heart failure. Dr. Kapur is the recipient of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, and several industry sponsors.