Amy Sarma

MD

Dr. Amy Sarma is the co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program and Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Cathy E. Minehan Endowed Chair in Cardiology. She is an Assistant Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sarma earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University. She trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital prior to Massachusetts General Hospital for her fellowships in cardiovascular disease and advance echocardiograph. Her clinical and research interests are in sex differences in cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular disease in pregnancy, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Her ongoing funded research studies focuses on the use of digital health strategies for postpartum hypertension and cardiovascular care. Nationally, she has previously served on the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Women In Cardiology Leadership Council and currently serves on the ACC Cardiovascular Disease in Women Leadership Council. She has been recognized as a semi-finalist for the international Women As One Escalator Award, as a finalist for the Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Early Career Investigators by the American Heart Association (AHA), received the Women In Cardiology Trainee Award for Excellence by the AHA, and is a recipient of the MGH Department of Medicine Innovation Award.

Dr. Leon Ptaszek

Lead Faculty

Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is an Associate Physician on the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Leon received his degrees from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at NYU in 2003. He completed a residency program in Internal Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005 and then completed clinical and research fellowships in Cardiovascular Diseases and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. In addition, he holds two patents and is the author of over 60 original scientific publications, reviews, and book chapters and is also involved in international health outreach efforts including establishing a virtual cardiology lecture series at the King Faisal Hospital in Rwanda and at the Uganda Heart Institute.

Leon received the Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. Award for research and the Award for Professionalism from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005. He received the Clinician-Scientist Award from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was named the de Gunzburg Scholar at MGH in 2011. Leon became a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2018. He also received a Pioneer Award for management of SVT from the Arrhythmia Alliance in 2021.