“Does Pre-Participation Screening Save Athlete Lives?”

 Martin S. Maron, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center

Tufts Medical Center

 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

 Co-sponsored by the Section of Cardiology and the Department of Medicine

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1.      Clarify the AHA requirements for pre participation screening of young athletes

2.      Expand our understanding of the strengths and limits of ECG testing in asymptomatic young athletes

3.      Recognize the most common causes of sudden death in young competitive athletes.

 Dr. Martin Maron received his undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and both his Medical Degree and Masters of Science in Public Health from Tulane University. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, followed by a Cardiology Fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Maron remained in Boston for a Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Tufts Medical Center. His research interests involve the role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the evaluation and management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) as well as investigating novel drug therapy to modify the HCM phenotype. Over the last 6 years, Dr. Maron has co-authored over 35 original publications in HCM including first author publications in New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Maron reported no conflicts of interest.

Please join the Department of Medicine in welcoming Dr. Martin Maron to Medicine Grand Rounds.

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