Our Team

Lucas Marinacci, MD

Faculty Physician Investigator

Dr. Peter Zimetbaum

Affiliated Faculty & Collaborators

Brett Carroll, MD

Brett Carroll, MD is the Director of the Section of Vascular Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He directs the BIDMC pulmonary embolism response team, is the medical director of the BIDMC Aortic Center, and director of lymphatic medicine. His research interests include venous thromboembolism, aortic disease, and lymphedema. He utilizes large administrative datasets to evaluate vascular diseases.

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Mabel Chung, MD

Mabel Chung, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and intensivist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is currently a T32 trainee and research fellow at the Smith Center investigating perioperative outcomes in heart failure patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Her clinical area of expertise is in cardiothoracic anesthesia and critical care with a focus on mechanical circulatory support, including ventricular assist devices and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

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Darae Ko, MD, MSc

Darae Ko, MD, MSc is Assistant Scientist II at Marcus Institute for Aging Research/Hebrew SeniorLife, BIDMC, Member of Faculty at Harvard Medical School, and practices as a general cardiologist at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Ko is dedicated to generating evidence for and implementation of safe and effective novel cardiovascular therapies in medically complex older adults. She is an expert in geriatric pharmacoepidemiology and leads Medicare Data- Atrial Fibrillation Outcomes Research Program at Marcus Institute.

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Dhaval Kolte, MD, PhD

Dhaval Kolte, MD, PhD is a Structural Interventional Cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kolte’s research focuses on understanding the reasons underlying hospital-level variation in outcomes of transcatheter heart valve interventions and identifying modifiable practices and processes of care associated with improved outcomes. He is also interested in comparative effectiveness of transcatheter heart valve therapies. His clinical area of expertise is in interventional cardiology, with an emphasis in structural heart disease and transcatheter aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve interventions.
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Anica Law, MD, MSc

Anica Law, MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University. She is a pulmonary-critical care physician and a health services researcher with a focus on improving outcomes of critically ill patients. Her research leverages large clinical and administrative databases to characterize the effects of external (e.g. legislation), internal (e.g. hospital and provider), and patient drivers on practice patterns, as well as to determine how practice pattern variations affect long-term outcomes of the critically ill.

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