Ask the Experts: Sarcoidosis- February 29, 2024

The Ask the Experts series is formatted as a Q&A with an opportunity for patients to pose questions to panelists at the time of registration, as well as ask questions live. For this session the experts are Dr. Kron, a cardiologist, and Dr. Braverman, a rheumatologist.
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About the Experts:
Dr. Kron-
Dr. Kron graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a major in Chemistry and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where she also completed Internal Medicine Residency. She completed fellowships in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Florida. She joined faculty as a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008, where she was Program Director for the electrophysiology fellowship program from 2013-2017 and an Associate Professor since 2015, and Professor since 2021. She is a founding member of the VCU Sarcoidosis Clinic.
Her primary research interest is cardiac sarcoidosis. She served on the writing committee for the HRS Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Arrhythmias Associated with Cardiac Sarcoidosis and was section leader for Management of Atrial Arrhythmias and Conduction System Disease in Patients with Cardiac Sarcoidosis. She is a founding member of the Cardiac Sarcoidosis Consortium, an international collaborative research group committed to furthering the understanding of cardiac sarcoidosis.
Dr. Braverman-
Dr. Genna Braverman is a senior rheumatology fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery/New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, where she is also currently completing a Master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Science through the Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Center. After completion of her fellowship training, she will join the Hospital for Special Surgery rheumatology faculty. Dr. Braverman has particular interests in cardiopulmonary manifestations of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and is especially committed to advancing patient care and research on sarcoidosis. She is thrilled to be involved with the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research as well as a member of the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Sarcoidosis Collaborative.