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VIDEO: Awareness of women’s heart health continues to progress
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CHICAGO — In this video exclusive, Malissa J. Wood, MD, co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, highlights recent advances in the understanding and research surrounding CVD in women.
Women’s heart health was front and center during several sessions at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session, including one focused on tips for developing a women’s heart program.
One study led by Daniel Mark Blumenthal, MD, for which Wood was an investigator, demonstrated sex differences in academic rank among cardiologists at U.S. medical schools in 2014. The study found that “there remains a gap in promotional status in women at the highest levels of academic rank and there are about 30% fewer women at the level of professor as compared to men, even when you control for NIH grants, research publications and age,” Wood said. “We still have a lot of room to make improvements in helping advance the careers in CVD.”