Jorge Plutzky, MD,

Jorge Plutzky, MD, is Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program, as well as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
   Dr Plutzky is Preceptor of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medical Residency Selection, and Vascular Center Steering committees at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He serves on the Coronary Risk Reduction Project of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the Preventive Cardiology Committee of the American Heart Association, and both the Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck National Lipid faculties. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, and the Massachusetts Medical Society.
   An invited speaker to national clinical lectures exploring primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease, and lipid-lowering therapy, Dr Plutzky is Associate Editor of Preventive Issues and Vascular Medicine. His original articles, reviews, and abstracts have been featured in Genomics and Nucleic Acid Research, among others. Dr Plutzky received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, where in 1986 he was awarded the James Bell Bullit Outstanding Achievement Award.

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