Eugene Braunwald, MD,- Clinical & Research News - For and about the Physicians and Researchers of Brigham and Women's HospitalEugene Braunwald, MD,- Clinical & Research News - For and about the Physicians and Researchers of Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Eugene Braunwald, MD, chief academic officer of Partners Healthcare System and the Hersey Distinguished Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School was awarded the Fourteenth Annual Warren Alpert Foundation Prize. Braunwald was recognized along with Barry S. Coller, MD of Rockefeller University for his role in dramatically improving the survival and quality of life for individuals suffering from myocardial infarction.

Braunwald’s research in the area of heart attacks and heart muscle damage was the impetus to changing the entire paradigm for treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Braunwald’s extensive investigations and trials have placed him, according to the Institute of Scientific Research, as the most prominently cited biomedical researcher in the world over the last four decades. Braunwald received a $100,000 award from the Warren Alpert Foundation on May 8, 2002 during a formal ceremony hosted at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston.