2023 Symposium Faculty

Notice: This information pertained to the 2nd Annual Women's Cardiovascular Symposium, held October 26, 2023. The 3rd annual event will be held Friday, October 6, 2024. Check back for more information.

Erin Michos, MD, MHS, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Talk Title: Lipids in Women Across the Lifespan

Dr. Erin Michos is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology and Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health.

Dr. Michos is an internationally known expert in Preventive Cardiology and Women’s Cardiovascular Health, having authored >600 publications and 11 book chapters. Her research involves (1) Cardio-Obstetrics and Women’s Health; (2) Lipids; (3) Diabetes/Cardiometabolic disease (4) Coronary artery calcium and other biomarkers for cardiovascular risk prediction.

She is the co-Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology and Associate Editor for Circulation. She is Co-Director of the IMPACT Center (Improving Participation Among Diverse Populations in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials) at Johns Hopkins funded by the American Heart Association (AHA). She is a co-investigator in several NIH-funded studies including the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohorts. She is the Training Director for four AHA Strategic Focused Research Network programs. She has mentored over 60 individuals and the recipient of 2 mentoring awards.

Dr. Michos completed medical school at Northwestern University, Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a Masters of Health Science degree at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Adrienne Youdim, MD, FACP

Dehl Nutrition | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Talk Title: New GLP-1 Agents & Weight Loss

Dr. Adrienne Youdim is an internist who specializes in medical weight loss and clinical nutrition. After receiving her degree from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Youdim completed her residency training and fellowship at Cedars-Sinai, where she later became the medical director for the Center for Weight Loss. She holds multiple board certifications awarded by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists and the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Youdim currently sees patients in her private practice in Beverly Hills, California.

She is the author of the text, Clinician's Guide to the Treatment of Obesity and her new book Hungry for More: Stories and Science to Inspire Weight Loss from the Inside Out explores the emotional and spiritual hungers that present as a hunger for food, validating universal experiences through story and science. She also hosts the Health Bite podcast and is founder of Dehl Nutrition, a complete line of nutritional supplements made with functional nutrients to promote health and wellbeing.

Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, MS, FACP, NCMP

Mayo Clinic Hospital
Jacksonville, Florida
Talk Title: The Impact of Menopause and Hormone Therapy on the Heart

Dr. Shufelt is Professor and Chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and Associate Director of Women's Health Research Center at Mayo Clinic Enterprise. She is a women’s health internist with fellowship training in vascular biology and women's health and a certified menopause practitioner. She has several National and International leadership roles in the American College of Physicians, the European Menopause and Andropause Society and the North American Menopause Society, where she is the immediate past-President of the Society and on the board of trustees.

Dr. Shufelt has over 150 publications in the area of women’s health and has also co-authored several scientific position statements on menopause and hormone therapy. Her NIH-funded research focuses on young women with hypothalamic amenorrhea evaluating the impact on immune and vascular health.

Mia Chorney, DNP, FNP-BC

HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center
Scottsdale, Arizona
Talk Title: Precision Medicine and Cardiovascular Genetics

Mia Chorney, DNP, FNP-BC, from HonorHealth, works in a leadership role at the Women’s Heart Center. After her cardiac event at age 32, she is passionate about tackling clinical problems in women’s cardiovascular health and providing evidence-based care and precision healthcare. Her thirty years of healthcare experience is diverse across a broad scope of practice, highlighted by Board Member of Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Professional Consultant Invitae Genetics, National Medical Education speaker, Nurse Practitioner, Director, Educator, Research Coordinator, Chair of the Province of British Columbia Canada Nurse Practitioners Standards x 4 years, Critical Care, Operating Room, Medivac Critical Care, and fly in Remote Outpost in the Great White North on a snowmobile.

Mia is currently leading the prescreening of Artificial Intelligence Cardiac Genetic Digital Health Information assistant as the 1st site in the United States. She is certified in artificial intelligence in healthcare and business strategy and as an Elite Trainer and Sports Nutrition. She has completed Mayo Genetic and AI conferences, mentorship with Dr. Michael Ackerman Mayo Rochester, and the Cincinnati Cardiac Genetic course. Mia uses her extensive knowledge of women’s heart health to advocate and educate on cardiovascular disease and care across Arizona and the United States.

Away from work, Mia is a wife, mother, Mimi/grandmother, and rescue pitbull mom with a passion for lifestyle fitness and trail running. As a lifelong learner, she is currently enrolled at MIT Sloan School of Management, focusing on leadership and AI.

Nandita Scott, MD, FACC

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Talk Title: Pregnancy: A Woman’s First Stress Test

Dr. Scott received her MD from the University of Ottawa in Canada. She completed Internal Medicine and Cardiology Residencies at the Ottawa Hospitals and Heart Institute where she was also Chief Internal Medicine and Chief Cardiology Resident. She then completed an echocardiography and clinical research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007 she facilitated the development of the MGH Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program which has become a robust clinical, educational and research program. Education about heart disease in women is one of its mission goals and includes talks to the community, health care professionals and the implementation of Heart Disease and Women CME courses through Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Medical Society and Partners Health Care. In 2023 she will begin as the first Director of the Mass General Brigham Women’s Heart Health Program, with the goal of integrating education, clinical access and research across the enterprise.

In 2012, Dr. Scott established the MGH Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program which has formalized and expanded the collaboration between Obstetrics and Cardiology to improve care for these at-risk women. Due to her efforts in improving cardiology care for women she has received several awards including: the American Heart Association Physician of the Year for Cape Cod and Islands, two Partners in Excellence awards and was placed on the honor role of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Committee on Women in Medicine. In 2020, she was awarded the Massachusetts Medical Society Women’s Health Research Award. She also now serves as the Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Section at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Maria Espinola, PsyD

Institute for Health Equity and Innovation
Cincinnati, Ohio
Talk Title: Turn, Turn, Turn: Time for Change in Cardiovascular Health

Maria Espinola, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in trauma, diversity, and women's issues. As the CEO of the Institute for Health Equity and Innovation, she provides vision, leadership and strategic planning for the development and implementation of health equity and trauma-informed initiatives in multifaceted organizations. She has a record of successful collaboration with leaders across universities, Fortune 100 companies, non-profit organizations and the three branches of government. She has been a consultant for the CDC and has served on the Ohio Commission on Minority Health’s Medical Expert Panel, the University of Cincinnati President’s Diversity Council, and the Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s Board of Directors. Dr. Espinola has traveled through 30 countries and recently served as an Official Delegate of the 5th Hispanic Leadership Summit at the United Nations.

Dr. Espinola has received over 25 awards for leadership, health equity initiatives, innovation, and community impact, and was recently nominated as a Woman of Impact by the American Heart Association. Dr. Espinola has been featured by a wide range of media outlets, including the U.S. News and World Report, CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, Teen Vogue, and Forbes Health. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Nova Southeastern University, her pre-doctoral fellowship in multicultural psychology at Boston University Medical Center and her post-doctoral fellowship in trauma at Harvard Medical School.

Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH, FRCPC

Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, Canada
Talk Title: Cardiac Imaging Post COVID-19

Kate Hanneman MD MPH FRCPC, is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. She completed medical school and diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Toronto, a cardiovascular imaging fellowship at Stanford University, and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at Harvard University. She is the Director of Cardiac Imaging Research at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging and University Medical Imaging Toronto, covering the University Health Network, Sinai Health System and Women’s College Hospital, and is the Medical Imaging Site Director at Women’s College Hospital.

Dr. Hanneman is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and is an Associate Editor with Radiology, the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. She has received grant funding as principal investigator from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and leads an active research program focused on improving health outcomes for patients with cardiomyopathies using cardiac imaging.

Garima Sharma, MD, FACC, FAHA

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Talk Title: Social Determinants of Health, Cardiovascular Health, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Dr. Garima Sharma is a national leader in Women’s Health and Preventive Cardiology. She is the Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program and the Director of Cardio-Obstetrics at Inova Health System, which is a service line between Inova Women’s Program and Inova Heart and Vascular Institute. She did her training at Temple University Hospital, PA and subsequently was on faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. She is the founder of the Cardio-Obstetrics Program at Hopkins. She comes to us with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the management of cardiovascular disease in women across the life span. She has published over 100 per review articles in top tier academic journals. She has also led several national and international educational conferences in women’s cardiovascular health.

In 2021, Dr. Sharma became the Governor of the Maryland Chapter of the ACC. She has been a writing group member of several ACC/AHA Guidelines on cardiovascular disease in women. She was the Chair of the AHA Scientific Statment on Status of Maternal Cardiovascular Health in AI AN Individuals. She was Vice-Chair of an AHA Policy Statement “Call to Actions: Maternal Health and Saving Mothers." In this document, Dr. Sharma and her co-authors provided comprehensive recommendations to improve maternal health. The authors advocated for policies to remove barriers to health care access and quality, systematically address social and structural determinants of health, incentivize care coordination among providers across the maternal care continuum, and cultivate and expand partnerships that empower community members to promote cardiovascular health in their communities.

She is co-author on the American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Cardiovascular Consideration in Caring for Pregnant Patients released in 2020. Dr Sharma was also the co-author on the recent 2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI Coronary Artery Disease Revascularization where she wrote the sections on secondary prevention and SCAD. She was a co-author on the landmark 2022 AHA Presidential Advisory that updated the cardiovascular health metrics from Life’s Simple 7 to Life’s Essential 8. This statement from the AHA redefined CVH and its 2024 Impact Goal.

She is the recipient of AHA Health and Social Needs Grant to understand the social determinants of risk of hypertension in reproductive age women in Baltimore. Her research has been awarded funding from NIH and American Heart Association and she has published extensively in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, Journal of American Medical Association on women’s health.

Her clinical and research interests are in cardiovascular disease in women especially pregnancy, preeclampsia, maternal obesity, health disparities, post-partum prevention of complications from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, addressing cardiovascular health in women and gender inequities in science and medicine. She is a member of the ACC Women in Cardiology Leadership Council and also the AHA Council of Clinical Cardiology’s Women and Underrepresented Populations.

She is also a leading expert in diversity and gender equity issues in medicine. She has written several articles on cardiovascular disease in pregnancy, gender equity in cardiology, mentoring and career development for FITs and ECs. She Dr. Sharma has led several national initiatives for professional development of fellows in training and is the President for the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). She is also the Associate Editor for JACC Advances for Women’s Health and Cardio-Obstetrics.

With her unique combination of clinical training, passion and expertise in research, and her commitment to a culture of inclusivity, Dr. Garima Sharma serves as a bridge between the different arms of the academic mission, clinical and advocacy, all in service of enhancing the quality of care and prevention for all patients, especially women.

Niti Aggarwal, MD, FSCMR, FASNC, FACC

Mayo Clinic Health System
Rochester, Minnesota
Talk Title: Approach to CV Imaging in Women

Dr. Niti Aggarwal is a non-invasive cardiologist and consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota . She is nationally renowned expert on heart disease in women and a multimodality imager. Since residency, she has been committed to using the tools of multimodality imaging to better understand, diagnose and reduce heart disease in women. Her curriculum vitae speaks for itself, and she is nationally recognized in the fields of cardiovascular imaging and sex differences in cardiac disease.

She has authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, serves on the Scientific Program Committees to organize American Society for Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), Society of Cardiac MRI’s annual scientific sessions, and most recently ACC’s program committee. She serves on the editorial board for Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, and Board of Directors for ASNC. She also serves on the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) Cardiovascular Disease in Women committee, where on behalf of the college she helps lead publications and webinars focusing on heart disease in women. She is the editor of the book titled “Sex Differences in Cardiac Disease”, a beautifully illustrated comprehensive textbook dedicated to heart disease in women.

C. Noel Bairey-Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Keynote Address: Her Heart Matters

Dr. Bairey-Merz's research interests include women and cardiovascular disease, mental stress and heart disease, the role of exercise and stress management in reversing disease, the role of cholesterol and nutrition management in heart disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes and cardiovascular disease, and precision medicine monitoring to predict unexpected cardiovascular events.

She is chair of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-sponsored WISE (Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation) initiative, which is investigating potential methods for more effective diagnosis and evaluation of ischemic heart disease in women.

Dr. Bairey-Merz has received investigational grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH-National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine (NCCAM), the National Institutes of Aging (NIA), the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute, the Pfeiffer Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Barbra Streisand Foundation, the Erika J. Glazer Women’s Heart Research Initiative, the Society for Women’s Health Research, the Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program, and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program of the Department of Defense.

A prolific lecturer, Dr. Bairey-Merz, is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the European Society of Cardiology, the American Association of Physicians, the Association of University Cardiologists, the Advisory Board of the NIH Office of Research in Women’s Health, and chairs of the ACC CVD in Women Committee. She is past member of the NHLBI Advisory Council, the Board of Trustees of the ACC, and is a past-chair of the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease committee, and the Women in Cardiology Committee of the AHA. Other professional associations have included membership on the National Space Biomedical Research Institute Board of Scientific Counselors, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Examiners, and she chaired the NIH-sponsored Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigations 2 Diabetes (BARI-2D) Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB).

She serves on the advisory boards of lay organizations, including WomenHeart, and the Women’s Heart Alliance. She has an extensive scientific publication record of over 450 scientific publications and book chapters, and more than 300 abstracts. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the Journal of Women's Health.

Dr. Bairey-Merz has appeared frequently in the media, recognized as an authority on the subject of heart disease. Her television appearances have included 60 Minutes, the Today Show, Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, NBC Dateline and 20/20. She has also been interviewed for articles published in The New York Times, Ladies Home Journal, US News & World Report and Working Woman Magazine, to name a few.

Dr. Bairey-Merz received her bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and her medical degree from Harvard University. She completed her residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where she served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Bairey-Merz also completed fellowships in clinical cardiology and nuclear cardiology and served as Chief Cardiology Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Susan Joseph, MD

University of Maryland Medica School
Baltimore, Maryland
Talk Title: Advanced Heart Failure in Women

Susan M. Joseph, MD is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. She specializes in the treatment and management of patients with heart failure. Her areas of clinical interests include heart failure, heart transplant, and left ventricular assist device therapy. Her research interests include improving outcomes in patients with mechanical devices in heart failure, innovative device therapy in heart failure, hemodynamics and cardiogenic shock, and assessing frailty in heart failure populations.

Dr. Joseph studied medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri where she went on to complete fellowship training in Cardiology, and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, as well as serving there as Assistant Professor and Medical Director of the HFpEF clinic.

Dr. Joseph has published extensively in leading journals as well as several book chapters. She has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure as well as Circulation HF.

Dr. Joseph currently serves as the Section Chief of Advanced Heart Failure at the University of Maryland.

Odayme Quesada, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Women’s Heart Center, Heart & Vascular Institute, The Christ Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio
Talk Title: Approach to Chronic Chest Pain in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Arteries

Odayme Quesada, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FESC is Medical Director of the Women’s Heart Center at The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute and the Ginger Warner Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health and Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati. Dr. Quesada is a board-certified, cardiologist with advanced clinical and research experience in women’s cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Quesada graduated summa cum laude from University of Florida in Gainesville and received her Medical Degree and Master of Health Science from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where she was Assistant Professor in division of advanced heart failure prior to starting cardiology training at Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute. Dr. Quesada completed a clinical cardiovascular fellowship and a National Institute of Health (NIH) T32 Cardiovascular research fellowship in women’s cardiovascular disease at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute and the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in Los Angeles.

At the completion of her fellowship, she was recruited to create and lead, as the Medical Director, the Women’s Heart Center at The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute.

Dr. Quesada was awarded an NIH K23 Career Development Award for her work to better understand the increased cardiovascular risk associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Dr. Quesada also leads numerous multicenter clinical studies to advance care in women’s cardiovascular disease at The Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education. She is an appointed member of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association committees on cardiovascular disease in women.

Dr. Quesada was awarded the Cincinnati Business Courier Health Care Heroes Innovator Award and the Forty under 40 Award.

Harmony Reynolds, MD, FACC, FACP, FAHA

NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York
Talk Title: Approach to Diagnosis & Management of Women with MINOCA

Dr. Harmony Reynolds is Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she directs the Sarah Ross Soter Center for Women’s Cardiovascular Research and is associate director of the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. Dr. Reynolds’ research career has been focused on mechanisms and outcomes of cardiovascular disease in women and testing of treatment strategies for ischemic heart disease in clinical trials.

She is particularly well known for her work in myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) and stable ischemic heart disease with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA). Dr. Reynolds is the associate director of the clinical coordinating center (CCC) for the NHLBI-funded, international, multi-center ISCHEMIA trial. In addition, she was the principal investigator of the CIAO-ISCHEMIA study, an international, multi-center, NHLBI-funded study researching the relationship between changes in symptoms and changes in stress test results over time in patients with INOCA.

She worked with colleagues to report on the relationship between medications and COVID-19 diagnosis and outcomes, and the role of microvascular and macrovascular thrombosis in severe or fatal COVID-19, leveraging extensive experience at the NYU Langone Health system in New York City, an early epicenter of the pandemic.

Dr. Reynolds’ clinical efforts include general cardiology practice at NYU Langone Health, with a focus on cardiovascular disease in women, and supervision of fellows in the Bellevue Hospital cardiology clinic. She received her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and completed her training in internal medicine and cardiology at NYU and Bellevue Hospital. She was named an AHA Founders Affiliate Rock Star of Research in 2011.

Annabelle Volgman, MD, FACC, FAHA

Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Talk Title: Women and Atrial Fibrillation

Dr. Annabelle Santos Volgman is the co-founder and medical director of the Rush Heart Center for Women, the first heart program in Chicago devoted exclusively to women that opened in 2003. She is the Madeleine and James M. McMullan-Carl E. Eybel, MD, Professor of Excellence in Clinical Cardiology at Rush and a nationally recognized leader in cardiology care and research. She is the Vice-Chief for Academic Affairs in the Division of Cardiology. A fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, Dr. Volgman has dedicated her career to helping women and their families lead healthier lives through the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Volgman received her undergraduate degree with honors from Barnard College and her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago and was fellowship trained in cardiology and clinical electrophysiology at Northwestern University.

A passionate researcher and leading advocate in the prevention of heart disease in women, Dr. Volgman has written and published numerous abstracts, articles, and OpEds for scientific peers and mass audiences.

Since its beginning in the early 2000s, Dr. Volgman has been a prominent leader in the American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women” campaign that aims to inform women about cardiovascular disease risks and actions they can take to protect their health. To show her support for the Go Red campaign, Dr. Volgman wears red every day to remind people that heart disease remains the leading cause of death among women in the U.S.

Dr. Volgman has received numerous awards from her peers, including the American Heart Association and Rush University. Since 2006 she has consistently been recognized in Chicago magazine’s annual listing of “Top Doctors” and earned similar accolades in Women’s Health Magazine. She has been listed in Castle Connolly’s Exceptional Women in Medicine since 2020.

Dr. Volgman was featured in O Magazine as Ms. Oprah Winfrey’s cardiologist in 2002. Among her awards are the national 2019 WomenHeart Wenger Award for Innovation in Heart Care for Women and the 2020 Woman’s Day Red Dress Award. She was honored with the 2022 McCue Award for Woman Cardiologist of the Year, a program of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health Pauley Heart Center.

Dr. Volgman remains heavily involved in many local and national causes, serving on the national scientific advisory board of WomenHeart, several national leadership committees of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and Chicago nonprofit institutions. She was elected governor of the Illinois American College of Cardiology and started her term in April 2021.

Tochukwo Okwuosa, DO, FACC, FAHA

Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Talk Title: Her Cancer, Her Heart: Heart Disease in Hammering that Cancer

Dr. Okwuosa is a Professor and Director of the Cardio-Oncology Program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She currently serves as Chair of the American Heart Association’s Cardio-Oncology Committee, as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Heart Association and on various regional and national cardiology/cardio-oncology committees and boards.

Dr. Okwuosa is recognized for her advocacy for health equity; she played a pivotal role in creating various successful loco-regional and national initiatives focusing on community education and collaborations to eliminate health disparities. She received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed her internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Okwuosa’s research interests focus on Cardio-Oncology and cardiovascular disease prevention. She has mentored many trainees in these fields and published numerous peer-reviewed research articles, book chapters, editorials and review articles on these topics.

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2023 Symposium Faculty