Clinical decision support solutions provider EBSCO Health has announced two additions to its DynaMed senior leadership team. Dr. Peter Oettgen has assumed the role of DynaMed Editor in Chief and Dr. Kevin Loughlin was appointed Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Brian Alper, the founder of DynaMed, previously held those positions and will continue to serve as VP of Innovations and EBM Development for EBSCO Health.
Before joining EBSCO Health as Editor in Chief, Dr. Oettgen served as the Associate Chief, Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). His major research interests and contributions have included determining the molecular mechanisms of vascular inflammation, angiogenesis, and vascular development.
For the past year and a half, Dr. Oettgen has served as the Deputy Editor of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Critical Medicine at DynaMed, where he recruited more than 25 specialty editors and added significant new content in heart failure, electrophysiology, valvular heart disease, and cardiac transplantation.
He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Preventive Cardiology at BIDMC. Dr. Oettgen is a recipient of an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). He has served as a reviewer for several scientific journals, was a Chair for an AHA study section, and Co-Chair and reviewer for several NIH study sections. He served as a scientific advisor for the NIH (NHLBI) in their Vascular Biology and Hypertension branch from 2008-2010.
Dr. Loughlin is now serving the DynaMed editorial team as Chief Medical Officer. For the past year and a half he has served as DynaMed’s Deputy Editor for Oncology. Dr. Loughlin has been a member of the urology division at Brigham and Women's Hospital for more than twenty-five years and is a full professor at Harvard Medical School.
Throughout his career, Dr. Loughlin has been the recipient of numerous best doctor and teaching awards, including the Alumnus Medal of Honor from New York Medical College and the Lifetime Achievement Award given by his peers in the New England Section of the AUA. He has served on the editorial boards of all three of the major North American urology journals and is the author or editor of nine books.
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