William Dean Carlson MD
Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Failure & Transplantation
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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55 Fruit StCardiac Unit Associates Yaw5Boston, MA 02114
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Summary
- Dr. William Carlson is a Cardiologist and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant sub-specialist based at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. He completed his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine in 1976, a Residency in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus), followed by a Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 2005, he has been working with the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. Dr. Carlson is experienced in critical care medicine, heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He has been published extensively including in Frontiers in Pharmacology, JACC, The Lancet and others. He's been recognized as a Fellow (FACC) by the American College of Cardiology.
Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1978 - 1982
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1976 - 1978
Yale School of MedicineClass of 1976
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 1978 - 2025
PA State Medical License 1987 - 1988
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine- American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Cardiac preservation usingorgan perfusion: new therapies for the treatment of heart failure by harnessing the power of growth factors using BMP mimetics like THR-184.William D Carlson, Dattatreyamurty Bosukonda, Peter C Keck, Philippe Bey, Shannon N Tessier
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2025-01-01 - 12 citationsA Process for the Design and Development of Novel Bone Morphogenetic Protein-7 (BMP-7) Mimetics With an Example: THR-184.William D Carlson, Peter C Keck, Dattatreyamurty Bosukonda, Frederic Roy Carlson Jr
Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2022-01-01 - 20 citationsMULTIORGAN DAMAGE IN PATIENTS WITH COVID-19: IS THE TGF-β /BMP PATHWAY THE MISSING LINK?F. Roy Carlson, Dattatreyamurty Bosukonda, Peter C. Keck, William D. Carlson
JACC. Basic to Translational Science. 2020-09-22
Professional Memberships
- Fellow
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