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| "Plan for Patients with Statin Intolerance" offers a lay-friendly look at how people who experience negative side effects from statins can potentially manage their symptoms. |
The Brigham’s Cardiovascular Medicine Innovation team won a 2020 Bronze Telly Award in the category of Non-Broadcast: Education for their video, “Plan for Patients with Statin Intolerance.”
The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Selected from over 12,000 entries worldwide, Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected content creators from around the world.
The Brigham’s award-winning video explains the management of statin intolerance based on the team’s remote lipids management program, developed by Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program and director of Preventive Cardiology. Christopher Cannon, MD, education director in Cardiovascular Innovation, led its creation and production in collaboration with software company Mytonomy.
Cardiovascular Medicine Innovation — led by Calum MacRae, MD, PhD, vice chair for Scientific Innovation in the Department of Medicine, and Benjamin Scirica, MD, director of Quality Initiatives in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine — seeks to revolutionize the way people get and stay healthy. With an initial focus on heart disease, the team’s internationally known physicians and researchers work side by side with experts from the fields of technology, engineering and data science.
