Kenneth Walsh is an American medical researcher specializing in the study of

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. He is a Professor of Medicine at the

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. He was formerly a professor at

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. Along with

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, he succeeded

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in 2021 as the co- editor of the peer-reviewed journal the ''

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''.

Honors and awards

Walsh has received an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and the Irwin F. Page Investigator Award from the Council on Arteriosclerosis. In 2011, he was one of five researchers named as Distinguished Scientists that year by the American Heart Association.

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External links

Faculty pageWalsh Lab
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