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Malissa J. Wood is a clinical cardiologist and staff physician in the Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she also serves as the Co-Director of the MGH Heart Center Women’s Health Program. Dr. Wood’s clinical practice is primarily devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women and athletes, and her research interests involve using echocardiography to better understand cardiac adaptations to changing loading conditions. Dr. Wood has published extensively in the area of cardiac adaptations to exercise training in athletes and is the principle investigator of several studies examining the use of new echocardiographic techniques. Dr. Wood received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and went on to complete her Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where she served as Chief Medical Resident. |
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