Biography:
After completing internal medicine residency interrupted by military service in Vietnam, Dr. Siegel initiated a primary care practice at the Brigham in the early 1970s, which evolved into the teaching practice for the primary care residency program. He also founded the MGH internal medicine Associates, Belmont, embedded in McLean Hospital in the 1990s. His research on Boston marathon runners has enhanced the safety of the sport, including evidence-based treatments for cerebral edema due to exercise-related hyponatremia and low-dose aspirin use to reduce the transiently increased race-related risk for cardiac arrest. He is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a fellow in the American College of Physicians.
Title : Preventing sports-related cardiac arrest: Coronary artery calcium scoring stratifies the benefit of low-dose aspirin use for risk reduction