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Michael Joseph Blaha, MD MPH
- Director of Clinical Research, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
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Seth Martin, MD MHS
- Director of the Advanced Lipid Disorders Program and Digital Health Lab, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
The Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
The Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease was founded in 1990 to honor Johns Hopkins University lacrosse coach Henry Ciccarone, who died after his third heart attack at the age of 50. The center was organized as a comprehensive clinical and research program with a simple goal: to prevent cardiovascular disease. The group includes over 40 Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty — national leaders in preventive cardiology such as cardiovascular risk assessment, cardiometabolic health, advanced lipid disorders, hypertension, women’s cardiovascular health, cardio-obstetrics, vascular medicine and sports cardiology.
2025 Highlights
- Wendy Post, Michael Blaha, and Seamus Whelton have leadership roles in the NIH-funded Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), which has provided key insights for cardiovascular risk prediction for the past 25 years.
- Stacey Schott was a co-author of the 2025 AHA/ACC Blood Pressure Guidelines, and Seamus Whelton and Alex Razavi were co-authors of the 2025 AHA Statement on the Opportunistic Detection of Coronary Artery Calcium to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction.
- Multiple Ciccarone Center faculty members have leadership roles in the 2026 U.S. Multi-Society Preventive Cardiology Clinical Practice Guideline Updates on cholesterol management, cardiometabolic health and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
- Michael Blaha and Yara Jelwan lead the Ciccarone Center Cardiometabolic Clinic, which helps patients with obesity, diabetes or heart failure benefit from GLP1-receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors.
- Seth Martin and Francoise Marvel lead the Ciccarone Center Advanced Lipid Disorder Clinic, which specializes in patients with complex dyslipidemias such as familial hypercholesterolemia, elevated lipoprotein(a) and hypertriglyceridemia.
- Erin Michos is Director of women’s cardiovascular health, and Anum Minhas is director of cardio-obstetrics. They run dynamic clinical and research programs in conjunction with Allison Hays.
