Specialties:

• Cardiovascular Consultations
• Women and Heart Disease
• Heart Disease in Pregnancy
• Valvular Heart Disease, including mitral valve prolapse
• Echocardiography
• Stress Echocardiography
• Nuclear Cardiology

Started Practice:

• 1999

Board Certifications:

• Diplomate, The American Board of Internal Medicine, 1995
• Diplomate, The American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, 1999
• Diplomate, National Board of Echocardiography, 2002
• Certified in Transthoracic and Stress Echocardiography

Current Hospital Positions:

• Attending Physician, Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Attending Physician, The Hospital of St. Raphael

Academic Appointments:

• Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
• Graduate Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 1998-1999

Professional Background and Educational Training:

 College
University of Pennsylvania, 1984-1988
Philadelphia, PA

 Medical School
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1988-1992
Baltimore, MD.

 Advanced Training
Medical Internship and Residency, 1992-1995
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY

Assistant Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, 1994-1995
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Clinical and Research Fellow in Medicine, 1995-1998
Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,  
Boston, MA

Clinical and Research Fellow in Echocardiography, 1997-1998
Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard
School, Boston, MA

Clinical and Research Fellow at the Framingham Heart Study, 1998-1999
Framingham, MA

Clinical Effectiveness Course in Epidemiology/Biostatistics, 1998
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Professional Organizations:

• Fellow; The American College of Cardiology
• Member; The American Society of Echocardiography
• Member; The American Medical Association
• Member; The American College of Physicians
• Member; Connecticut State Medical Society

Committee Memberships:

• Yale-New Haven Heart Center, Women’s Heart Advantage Committee (founding member and co-chair)
• Yale-New Haven Medical Staff IPA – Credentialing Committee
• Council on Clinical Cardiology. American Heart Association, Women in Cardiology Committee
• American College of Cardiology Live Programs Committee

Editorial Positions:

• Reviewer for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2004-present
• Regional Editor on the American Journal of Ethics and Medicine, 1990-1992

Honors & Awards:

• Astra Merck Cardiovascular Young Investigator’s Forum finalist, 1998
• Arthur Sakell Fellowship Research Award recipient at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 1997
• Roman W. DeSanctis Clinical Scholar Award recipient at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 1996
• David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award recipient at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 1995
• Student Research Fellowship at The National Institutes of Health: National Heart , Lung, and Blood Institute – Cardiology Branch, 1990 & 1989
• Student Research Fellowship at Pennsylvania Hospital, 1988
• Benjamin Franklin Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
• Student Research Fellowship at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1987 & 1986

Lectures & Teaching by Invitation:

• Community Service:
• Yale-New Haven HealthLINK on various topics, including women and heart disease, mitral valve prolapse, heart disease in the young, C-reactive protein, and lipid guidelines
• Multiple lectures in the community on Women and Heart Disease, sponsored by Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Women Heart Advantage Program
• Lecturer on Heart Health in Women, sponsored by the Women and Family Life Center
• Medical and Ob/GYN grand rounds on Mitral Valve Prolapse and Women and Heart Disease
• Lecturer on lipids and Women and Heart Disease in conferences for internists
• Lecturer to Yale medical students, Yale-New Haven Hospital nurses, cardiology fellows and Yale-New haven Hospital CCU attending
• Speaker for American Heart Association on Women and Heart Disease
• Speaker on mitral valve prolapse at American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Cardiology ACCEL recording, Upper New York State Medical Society,
• Medical Consultant for “Consumer Reports on Health” for mitral valve prolapse
• Speaker on cardiac changes in pregnancy at American Society of Echocardiography

Presentations:

• Freed LA, Benjamin EJ, Levy D, Larson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Levine RA The progression of mitral valve prolapse: a follow-up investigation in the Framingham Heart Study. JACC 2001, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Freed LA, Chow T, Ruskin JN, Levine RA. Sudden cardiac death in mitral valve prolapse: is papillary muscle traction the culprit? JACC 1999;33:541A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Freed LA, Picard MH, Marshall JE, Levine RA. Dobutamine echocardiography and mitral valve prolapse: mechanism of paradoxic decrease in mitral regurgitation. JACC 1999;33:427A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Freed LA, Benjamin EJ, Levy D, Larson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Levine RA. Extravalvular associations of mitral valve prolapse: clues to the diagnosis? [abstract]. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1998;11:534, presented at The American Society of Echocardiography.
• Freed LA, Levy D, Levine RA, Larson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Benjamin EJ. Mitral valve prolapse & atrial septal aneurysm: a true association? An evaluation in the Framingham Heart Study. [abstract]. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1998;11:561, presented at The American Society of Echocardiography.
• Freed LA, Pajin LF, Leavitt MB, Levine RA. Mitral and tricuspid valve prolapse: a common association? [abstract] . JACC 1998;31:56A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Freed LA, Benjamin EJ, Levy D, Lawson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Levine RA. Is mitral valve prolapse more benign in a general population? Reevaluation of echo features in the Framingham Heart Study [abstract]. JACC 1998;31:122A, presented at The American College of Freed LA, Levy D, Levine RA, Lawson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Benjamin EJ. Mitral valve prolapse reconsidered: prevalence and epidemiology in the Framingham Heart Study [abstract]. JACC 1998;31:303A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Freed LA, Eagle KA, Mahjoub ZA, Smith AJC, Gold MR, O’Gara PT, Paul S.  Gender differences in patients with unexplained syncope [abstract]. JACC 1996; 27:107A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Freed LA, Stein KM, Borer JS, Hochreiter C, Supino P, Devereux RB, Kligfield P.  Prognostic value of ultra-low frequency heart rate variability in chronic aortic regurgitation [abstract]. JACC 1995; 25:254A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.
• Quyyumi AA, Freed L, Tripodi D, Fananpazir L. Effects of myocardial ischemia on the signal averaged electrocardiogram [abstract]. JACC 1991; 17:347A, presented at The American College of Cardiology.

Publications:

• Caulin-Glaser T, Freed LA, Parkosewich J, D’Onofrio G. Impact of a community-based education program to improve women’s awareness of heart disease. Journal for Healthcare Quality. March/April 2005.
• Freed LA, Acierno JS, Dai D, Leyne M, Marshall JE, Nesta F, Levine RA, Slaugenhaupt SA. A Locus for autosomal dominant mitral valve prolapse on chromosome 11p15.4. Am J Hum Genet 2003; 72(6):1551-9.
• Freed LA, Benjamin EJ, Levy D, Larson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Levine RA. Mitral valve prolapse in the general population: the benign nature of echocardiographic features in the Framingham Heart Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;40:1298-304.
• Freed LA, Levy D, Levine RA, Larson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Benjamin EJ. Mitral valve prolapse and atrial septal aneurysm: an evaluation in the Framingham Heart Study. Am J Cardiol 2002; 89:1326-9.
• Freed LA, Levy D, Levine RA, Larson MG, Evans JC, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Benjamin EJ. Prevalence and clinical outcome of mitral valve prolapse. N Engl J Med 1999;341:1-7. 
• Singh JP, Evans JC, Levy D, Larson MG, Freed LA, Fuller DL, Lehman B, Benjamin EJ. Prevalence and clinical determinants of mitral, tricuspid, and aortic regurgitation (The Framingham Heart Study). Am J Cardiol 1999;83:897-902.
• Freed LA, Eagle KA, Mahjoub ZA, Gold MR, Smith AJC, Terrell LB, O’Gara PT, Paul SD. Gender differences in presentation, management, and cardiac event-free survival in patients with syncope. Am J Cardiol 1997;80:1183-1187.
• Freed LA, Stein KM, Borer JS, Hochreiter C, Supino P, Devereux RB, Roman MJ, Kligfield P. Prognostic value of ultra-low frequency heart rate variability in chronic aortic regurgitation. Am J Cardiol 1997;79:1482-1487.
• Kroll DJ, Freed LA, Stein KM, Borer JS, Kligfield P. Rhythm annotation and  interobserver reproducibility of measures of heart rate variability. Am J Cardiol 1996;78:1055-1057.
• Freed LA, Stein KM, Gordon M, Urban M, Kligfield P. Reproducibility of power spectral measures of heart rate variability obtained from short-term sampling  periods. Am J Cardiol 1994;74:972-973.