HCM Around the Globe: Tools and Resources

Dr. Martin Maron is Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center and Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center and the Chanin T. Mast Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center in Morristown Medical Center. His research interests are the diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy including the role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in assessment of patients with HCM and novel drug therapy to modify the disease. Dr. Maron has co-authored over 200 original publications on HCM including in New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Circulation and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Marco Antonio Rodrigues Torres, MD is a cardiologist specializing in non-invasive imaging. He received his medical degree from the Federal Fluminense University in 1971 and completed his residency in internal medicine at a Federal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro as well as a fellowship in cardiology at the Cedars Sinai Medical center. He served as a professor in medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre from 1985 through 2019 and received his PhD in cardiology with original research in Pisa, Italy. Additionally, Dr. Torres has served on the National Research Council at the University of Queensland and has been an organizer and coordinator of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil for 15 years.