Scientific Advisory Board

Jagat Narula

Cardiology

Dr. Narula is the Philip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Cardiology of Mount Sinai Morningside, and Associate Dean for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Narula’s major contributions to the field of cardiovascular medicine include the description of the phenomenon of heart muscle cell suicide (apoptosis) and identification of vulnerability of atherosclerotic plaques to rupture causing heart attacks. He has the distinction of publishing in the best basic science and clinical medicine journals, including Science, Nature Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet.