Dr. Christine Seidman is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a professor of genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Seidman served as an intern and resident in internal medicine at John Hopkins Hospital and received subspecialty training in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a member of the Institutes of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.