Dr. Garima Sharma is an international leader in Women’s Health and Preventive Cardiology. She is the Martha Schar Endowed Chair in Women’s CVH and the Director of Preventive Cardiology, 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 has published over 150 per review articles in top tier academic journals. She has also led several national and international educational conferences in women’s cardiovascular health.
For the AHA, she has been a writing group member of 8 ACC/AHA Guidelines on cardiovascular disease in women. She was the Chair of the AHA Scientific Statement 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”. She is co-author on the American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Cardiovascular Consideration in Caring for Pregnant Patients released in 2020. 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. Her research has been awarded funding from NIH and American Heart Association she has published extensively in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, Journal of American Medical Association on women’s health
