Dr. Marc Alan Pfeffer is a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Victor J. Dzau professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Pfeffer received his medical degree from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency and a cardiology fellowship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now BWH). Dr. Pfeffer is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.
Dr. Pfeffer - along with Dr. Janice Pfeffer and Dr. Eugene Braunwald - is credited with introducing the concept that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) could mitigate adverse ventricular remodeling following myocardial infarction and that ACEI use would result in increased survival and other clinical benefits.
His clinical interests include cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease and valvular heart disease. The author of over 450 peer-reviewed publications, he has received research funding from the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health. Dr. Pfeffer has been listed as one of America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and named a top cardiologist by Boston Magazine. Dr. Pfeffer is the recipient of the Clinical Research Prize and the James Herrick Award, both from the American Heart Association.
