Pradeep Natarajan MD MMSc

Preventive Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease Genetics

Director of Preventive Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital

Education & Training

Harvard Medical SchoolMMSc, Biomedical Informatics, 2013 - 2015
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2011 - 2015
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2009 - 2011
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2008 - 2009
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2008
University of California, BerkeleyBA, Molecular & Cell Biology, Honors, 2000 - 2004

PubMed

1 citations
The continuum of prevention and heart failure in cardiovascular medicine: A joint scientific statement from the Heart Failure Society of America and the American Socie...
Anuradha Lala, Craig Beavers, Vanessa Blumer, LaPrincess Brewer, Diana De Oliveira-Gomes
American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2025-12-01
Genetics of Cholesterol and Coronary Disease Risk across Six Global Ancestries.
Sarah M Urbut, Qiuli Chen, Yang Sui, Anika Misra, Satoshi Koyama
NEJM Evidence. 2025-11-01
Lipoprotein(a) and Venous Thromboembolism: Association, Causality, and Medications.
Mariana B Pfeferman, Sina Rashedi, Gregory Y H Lip, Christian Weber, Michelle L O'Donoghue
Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 2025-11-01

Journal Articles

Clinical Utility of Lipoprotein(A) and LPA Genetic Risk Score in Risk Prediction of Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
Pradeep Natarajan, MD, JAMA Cardiology
Completing the Genetic Spectrum Influencing Coronary Artery Disease: From Germline to Somatic Variation
Pradeep Natarajan, MD, Cardiovascular Research
Recall by Genotype and Cascade Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in a Population-Based Biobank from Estonia
Sekar Kathiresan, Pradeep Natarajan, Nature
DNA Sequence Variation in ACVR1C Encoding the Activin-Receptor like Kinase 7 Influences Body Fat Distribution and Protects Against Type 2 Diabetes
Derek Klarin, Pradeep Natarajan, Ruth McPherson, Sekar Kathiresan, Krishna Aragam, Alexander Bick, Diabetes Care
Genome-Wide Polygenic Scores for Common Diseases Identify Individuals with Risk Equivalent to Monogenic Mutations
Amit V Khera, Steven A Lubitz, Sekar Kathiresan, Patrick T Ellinor, Krishna G Aragam, Pradeep Natarajan, Nature
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Scientists Have Edited a Gene That May Reduce High Cholesterol PermanentlyNovember 8th, 2025
App Turns Smartwatch into Detector of Structural Heart DiseaseNovember 8th, 2025
Apple Watch Hypertension Alert Moves BP Clues from Clinic to WristOctober 9th, 2025
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Exploration and benchmarking of duplex sequencingBROAD INSTITUTE, INC.2023–2028
Whole Individual Comprehensive KnowlEDge: Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (WICKed SMaHT)BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.2023–2028
Whole genome sequences in ethnically diverse individuals to comprehensively characterize the genetic mechanisms of dyslipidemiasMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2019–2028
Integrated omics analysis of clonal hematopoiesis and cardiovascular disease risk in TOPMedEMORY UNIVERSITY2023–2027
Evaluation of Novel Clonal Hematopoiesis Of InDEterminate Potential, Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations and CardioVascular Disease in HIV Infection (ENCODE CVD in HIV)UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES2023–2027
Evaluation of Novel Clonal Hematopoiesis Of InDEterminate Potential, Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations and CardioVascular Disease in HIV Infection (ENCODE CVD in HIV)UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES2023–2027
Enabling improved applicability and transferability of polygenic scores across diverse populations- a focus on South AsiansMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2021–2026
Clonal hematopoiesis in humans: determinants of development and progressionBAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE2019–2025
Using genetic variation to study biology of blood lipids & coronary heart diseaseBOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS2015–2025