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Cardiology Today Editorial Board member receives distinguished award
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Nanette K. Wenger, MD, a Cardiology Today Editorial Board member, is the recipient of the 2011 American Heart Association’s Council on Clinical Cardiology James B. Herrick Award for her influence on clinical cardiology practice.
Wenger currently serves as professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine. Her clinical research and practice has focused on women’s CVD, evaluating different risk factors and specific features of CVD in women and men. Wenger was presented the award at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2011. There, she delivered a lecture, titled “Women and Coronary Heart Disease a Century After Herrick: Understudied, Underdiagnosed and Undertreated.”
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Known as a champion for women’s heart disease, Wenger has written more than 1,400 scientific and review articles and book chapters. She has also served as a chairwoman on more than 500 committees, scientific advisory boards, task forces and councils of the American Medical Association, American College of Cardiology, AHA, NHLBI and the Society of Geriatric Cardiology.