Cardiologist Martha Gulati, MD, who specializes in both preventive cardiology and cardiovascular disease in women, has been named the Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine and Research at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
Gulati already serves as Cedars-Sinai’s director of preventive cardiology, associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center and associate director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center within the Smidt Heart Institute. She first joined Cedars-Sinai in 2022 after working as a professor and cardiology chief at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.
“I’m incredibly grateful for this extraordinary recognition and extend a special thank-you to Anita Dann Friedman for her visionary leadership and generous philanthropic support,” Gulati said in a prepared statement. “It will allow us to continue much-needed scientific exploration of women’s heart health and to further innovate in the areas of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.”
“Dr. Gulati is incredibly deserving of this notable endowed chair,” added cardiologist Noel Bairey Merz, MD, who serves Cedars-Sinai as director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, director of the Smidt Heart Institute’s Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program and Irwin and Sheila Allen Chair in Women’s Heart Research. “She has devoted her career to furthering our knowledge of cardiovascular issues and how to prevent them, as well as to exploring the distinctive differences in genders as it relates to cardiovascular health.”
Gulati is also the president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. In addition, she has had her research published in multiple peer-reviewed medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association, and won the American College of Cardiology’s Bernadine Healy Award in 2019. Gulati is also the author of a book focused on cardiovascular disease among women, Saving Women’s Hearts: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease with Natural and Conventional Strategies, and played a key role in the development of the 2021 chest pain guidelines.
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