The mission of the Scientific Advisory Council is to provide medical and scientific leadership and guidance to help advance the mission of WomenHeart by proactively facilitating the development of new knowledge about heart disease in women, actively disseminating knowledge about heart disease in women to medical and public audiences, and advocating and raising awareness about heart disease in women.

Members

Karol Watson, MD, PhD, FACC - Chair

Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, UCLA Center for Cholesterol and Lipid Management, and Co-Director, UCLA CHAMP - Cholesterol, Hypertension, and Atherosclerosis Management Program, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

 

Susan K. Bennett, MD

Washington Hospital Center

 

Kathy Berra, MSN

Stanford Research Center and Director, Stanford Heart Network

 

Altagracia Chavez, MD

Staff cardiothoracic surgeon, Cleveland Clinic Heart Center

 

Howard Green

Medical Education Director for theheart.org, a subsidiary of WebMD

 

Phyllis Greenberger, MSW

President and Chief Executive Officer, Society for Women’s Health Research

 

Barbara Natterson, MD

Director of Cardiovascular Education, UCLA Medical Center

 

Sharonne N. Hayes, MD, FACC

Director, Women’s Heart Clinic, Mayo Clinic

 

Penny M. Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD

Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Penn State University

 

Alexandra Lansky, MD, FACC

Director, Yale Cardiovascular Research Group, Yale University School of Medicine

 

Pamela Marcovitz, MD

Director, Ministrelli Women’s Heart Center, Beaumont Hospital

 

C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC

Medical Director, Women’s Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

 

Jennifer H. Mieres, MD, FACC, FAHA

Director of Nuclear Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine

 

Jean M. Nappi, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS

Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Outcome Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

 

Rita Redberg, MD, MSc, FACC

Director, Women’s Cardiovascular Services, UCSF Medical Center 

 

Leslie Anne Saxon, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, USC University Hospital

 

Tracy L. Stevens, MD, FACC

Medical Director, Muriel I. Kauffman Women's Heart Center, St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

 

Annabelle S. Volgman, MD, FACC

Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director, Heart Center for Women, Rush University Medical Center

 

Mary Norine Walsh, MD, FACC

Congestive Heart Failure Program, St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis

 

Nanette Kass Wenger, MD, MACC, MACP, FAHA

Emory University School of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology, Grady Memorial Hospital

 

Susan Wood, PhD

Research Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, The George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services