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Dr. Thomas B. Graboys is a clinical professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and former attending cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is president emeritus of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts. Dr. Graboys has done early research in the area of cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death. More recently, Dr. Graboys has focused on second opinions for interventions in cardiology, including catheterization, angioplasty, stents, and coronary bypass surgery.

Dr. Graboys is the author or co-author of approximately 170 publications and abstracts, co-author of the text Angina Pectoris: Management Strategies and Guide to Interventions (1994), and has been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He was the 1992 recipient of the Harvard Medical School Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1995 recipient of the Achievement Award in Preventive Medicine of the American College for Advancement in Medicine. In May 1999, Dr. Graboys received the Harvard Medical School Class of 1999 NBI Healthcare Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award.

Dr. Graboys became a patient himself when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and dementia. The account of his personal battle, Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia, was published by Union Square Press in 2008.