Jacques Kpodonu MD, FACC Faculty of Surgery | Harvard Medical School | Cardiac Surgeon Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

My mission is to help as many people as possible by championing health equity with a particular focus on cardiovascular disease by leveraging my expertise and network as a triple US boarded cardiac and endovascular surgeon based at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and surgical faculty at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

As an international cardiac surgeon leader, I hold leadership roles with the Society of Thoracic Surgery, American College of Cardiology, REACH program and frequently quoted in national and international journals and media like the Orange County Register and CTSNET.

I achieve these goals by leveraging my current role as an author and editor of 4 cardiovascular medical textbooks as well as my regular published work on topics on digital health, biomedical innovation, design of hybrid operating rooms and recently addressing health equity during #COVID19 pandemic.

I share periodic posts and insights on various topics ranging from #COVID19 pandemic ,addressing cardiac surgery capacity in Africa, digital health technology, biomedical innovation, precision-medicine, population health, wearable technology and raising awareness around health and racial disparity .

I collaborate in:

  • Anticoagulation therapy with Warfarin and INR monitoring

    Cardiology

    Approximately 2 million people in the U.S. who are prescribed warfarin annually, 35,000 to 45,000 individuals go to hospital emergency rooms with warfarin-related adverse drug events. Build-a-Care app provides INR test result scheduling, INR test result reviewing, Warfarin dose adjustment and alerts

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Other Collaborators:

  • Jacques Kpodonu MD, FACC

    Faculty of Surgery | Harvard Medical School | Cardiac Surgeon Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Jacques Kpodonu MD, FACC Faculty of Surgery | Harvard Medical School | Cardiac Surgeon Beth Israel...

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  • Justin Zachariah MD, MPH

    Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine | Co-Chair of Research Operations, Texas Children’s Hospital Heart Center

    Justin Zachariah MD, MPH Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine | Co-Chair of Research...

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  • M. Ali Nasim

    CEO, Ephlux | Connected Enterprise | Customer Experience | Strategist & Technologist

    Ali is a ‘connected enterprise’, ‘customer experience’ and 'low-code no-code' thought leader...

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  • Asishana Osho MD

    Cardiac Surgeon and Health Services Researcher | Massachusetts General Hospital | Harvard Medical School

    Asishana Osho, MD Cardiac Surgeon and Health Services Researcher | Massachusetts General Hospital...

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Publications

  • Mental Health Issue
    No-Code Tools for Managing Mental Health and Burnout in Healthcare Settings

    “P4” is a term that is often associated with future of medicine – prediction, prevention, personalization and patient participation. Many current health related technologies have already started moving towards the future and many more innovations are yet to come, that will make the goal of holistic medicine true.

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  • Impact of health technology on diabetes management

    “P4” is a term that is often associated with future of medicine – prediction, prevention, personalization and patient participation. Many current health related technologies have already started moving towards the future and many more innovations are yet to come, that will make the goal of holistic medicine true.

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  • Challenges in preventative cardiology – is no-code the solution?

    Considering the impact of therapeutic interventions on modifiable risk factors that lead to CVD, care providers can use no-code programs to curate personalized programs for every patient. The care programs developed for patients can consider individual biological risk factors and become highly specialized to monitor patients as needed.

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