Kenneth L. Baughman, Director of Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was struck and killed by a car while jogging on Monday in Orlando, where he was attending the AHA Scientific Sessions.\u00a0He was 63.<\/p>\n
Dr. Baughman was also an Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> and was previously Director of the Cardiology Division at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.\u00a0He was a recognized leader in academic cardiology and a master clinician who had cared for thousands of patients and mentored generations of trainees.\u00a0He was beloved and revered by all who knew him.<\/p>\n Dr. Baughman is remembered as an avid athlete and a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather.\u00a0He is survived by his wife Cheryl, sons Matthew and Christopher, daughters-in-law Michelle and Holly, and four grandchildren. On behalf of the staff of\u00a0the New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> and CardioExchange, we extend our deepest sympathies to his family, friends, and colleagues.<\/p>\n More information is available in\u00a0the Boston Globe obituary here<\/a> and related story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kenneth L. Baughman, Director of Advanced Heart Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was struck and killed by a car while jogging on Monday in Orlando, where he was attending the AHA Scientific Sessions.\u00a0He was 63. Dr. Baughman was also an Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and was previously Director of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}