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Dr. Newton-Cheh is on the faculty of the Center for Human Genetic Research and the Cardiovascular Research Center, where he co-directs the Human Cardiovascular Genetics Program, both of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Newton-Cheh is a staff physician in the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He receives support from the NIH, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Dr. Newton-Cheh earned a BA from Dartmouth College in 1991 and an MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1996. From 1996 to 2002, he trained in internal medicine and cardiology and served as chief medical resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in complex trait genetics at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT with Joel N. Hirschhorn, MD, PhD and in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Framingham Heart Study with Christopher J. O’Donnell, MD, MPH from 2002 to 2007. He obtained a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. |
