What is your professional background? I received a BS in biology from Xavier University of Louisiana and my MD from Harvard Medical School. I did my internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in…
What is your professional background? I attended medical school in Brazil at the Universidade Federal do Ceara where I also got a PhD in pharmacology. Afterwards, I moved to Pittsburgh, PA, where I trained as…
What is your professional background? Following my PhD, I was a postdoctoral researcher in cardiovascular physiology and bio-chemistry at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Research Institute with F. Merlin Bumpus. I subsequently established an independent group…
After a heart attack, cardiac muscle cells die because they are deprived of blood and oxygen. In newborn babies, as well as in adult fish, the heart can regenerate after injury. Why can’t the human…
What is your professional background? I was an applied biology major at the Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 2002. After completing an internal medicine residency at Emory, I…
Rebecca Levit, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, received a five-year, $2.2 million RO1 grant for her research lab from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study endogenous methods that…
“Women and Heart Disease,” now in its 11th year, has a strong reputation as a premier cardiovascular CME/CE conference. This half-day conference focuses on exploring evolving concepts and therapies around the fight to prevent heart disease…
Basic science researchers in the Emory University Division of Cardiology have made several groundbreaking contributions to the study of vascular biology, particularly in: Atherosclerosis Hypertension Biology of oxygen radicals and their role in both normal vessel…
Gina Price Lundberg, MD, FACC (Emory University Division of Cardiology) is a preventive cardiologist with The Emory Clinic (East Cobb), the founder and medical director of the Emory Saint Joseph’s Heart Center for Women, an…
Help us save the lives of thousands of local women. Emory’s “10,000 Women Project,” which aims to screen 10,000 at-risk women for heart disease, is looking for clinical volunteers to assist with community health screenings, including: Blood pressure Cholesterol Height/Weight/Body…