Gary J. Balady, MD

Gary J. Balady, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where he directs the section of Preventive Cardiology and Noninvasive Cardiovascular Laboratories. He is a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine and Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Balady is an expert in preventive cardiology, serving on several key American Heart Association committees involved with exercise, physical activity, and heart disease prevention.

Dr. Balady’s research is focused on exercise testing and training of heart patients, with a particular emphasis on the physiologic changes that occur in the cardiovascular system with regular exercise, as well as assessment of outcomes after cardiac rehabilitation. He has served for more than a decade as an associate editor for the journal Circulation, and has either chaired or been a member of several writing groups of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, which generate guidelines regarding exercise testing and training and preventive cardiology.