Thomas F. Lüscher is the 6th Annual Robert L. Krakoff International Lectureship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA.

 

The Krakoff family, entrepreneurs in fashion in the US and patients at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, donated an Annual Robert L. Krakoff International Lectureship at Harvard Medical School to foster exchange among institutions of excellence worldwide.

Thomas F. Lüscher, MD, FRCP, professor and chairman of cardiology at the University Heart Center in Zurich, has been invited by Mark Pfeffer, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine at Harvard Medical School, to become the 6th Annual Robert L. Krakoff International Lectureship in Cardiovascular Medicine on April 9 – 11, 2014 and to give Grand Rounds at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital on „From Eisenhower’s heart attack to modern concepts of acute coronary syndromes“ as well as a Vascular Biology Series seminar on „Aging and longevity genes and cardiovascular disease“.

Previous awardees of the Krakoff Lecture were Peter J. Schwartz (Pavia, Italy), William McKenna (London, UK), P. Gabriel Steg (Paris, France), Andreas Zeiher and Stefanie Dimmeler (Frankfurt, FRG), and Sir Rory Collins (Oxford, UK).