Muse, Evan, M.D., Ph.D.
Evan D. Muse, M.D., Ph.D., joined the Scripps Translational Science Institute in 2012 as a KL2 Clinical Scholar and Cardiovascular Research Fellow. As a KL2 Scholar Dr. Muse takes unique advantage of his training as a physician-scientist to more fully understand the pathogenesis and prevention of atherosclerotic heart disease from both the basic science and clinical-translational perspectives.
He completed his medical and graduate studies as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where he studied the connections between obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the laboratory of Dr. Luciano Rossetti. Following internship and residency at the Columbia University Medical Center – New York Presbyterian Hospital and several years of clinical cardiology fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, he made the cross-country move to the west coast to join the STSI.