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Alexander Bick, M.D., Ph.D.

Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital

Areas of expertise

  • - Genetic medicine

Major works

At the Heart of the Genome: Rare Genetic Variation, Cardiovascular Disease, and Therapy. 2014; Bick, A., et al. (2012) “Burden of rare sarcomere gene variants in the Framingham Heart Study” American Journal of Human Genetics ;

About me

Dr. Bick was a MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School and a digital learning technology aficionado. He has performed research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on the use of personal digital assistants to enhance teaching and learning. More recently he has received funding from the Hauser Initiative in Teaching and Learning to develop new technologies to extend anatomy in virtual space using the Microsoft Xbox Kinect. Beyond AnatomyX, Dr. Bick studies the genetic basis of heart disease.

Courses and Programs taught by Alexander Bick, M.D., Ph.D.