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Cardiology Today board member to receive women’s health award
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C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, will be awarded the inaugural Journal of Women’s Health Award for Outstanding Achievement in Women’s Health Research, to be presented at the 20th Annual Congress on Women’s Health from March 16 to 18 in Washington, D.C.
The Journal of Women’s Health Award for Outstanding Achievement in Women’s Health Research recognizes exceptional work in the overall advancement of women’s health research. Bairey Merz, a member of the Cardiology Today Editorial Board, holds the Women’s Guild Chair in Women’s Health and is director of the Women’s Heart Center and Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Her research has spanned women and heart disease, mental stress and heart disease, the role of exercise and stress management in reversing disease, and the role of nutrition in heart disease. Currently, she is chair of the NIH-sponsored Women’s Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) initiative, which is investigating potential methods for more effective diagnosis and evaluation of CAD in women.
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“Dr. Bairey Merz and her investigative team have been examining coronary heart disease and approaches to its diagnosis in women for more than a decade, and she has been a pioneer in understanding female pattern heart disease,” Congress co-chair Wendy S. Klein, MD, senior deputy director emeritus of the VCU Institute for Women’s Health and deputy editor of the Journal of Women’s Health, said in a press release.