Ilan S. Wittstein, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Dr. Wittstein’s 2005 New England Journal of Medicine study on broken heart syndrome is widely credited with bringing global attention to what had been a poorly understood condition. HopkinsMedicine.org
In 2015, the mother of former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie died less than an hour after her husband of 56…
