Doctor Patrick O'Gara

Patrick T. O'Gara, MD is the Watkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His clinical activities are focused on patients with valvular and structural heart diseases, as well as diseases of the aorta. Since 2001, he has been named annually among the Top Doctors in Boston and the U.S. O'Gara served as President of the American College of Cardiology in 2014-15. He is the Chair of the Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the AHA/ACC and an investigator for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSN). O’Gara is Deputy Editor for JAMA Cardiology and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Circulation.