Presentation: Hypertension in Pregnancy and Future Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease
Date/Time: Friday, October 11, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Speaker: Vesna D. Garovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Vesna D. Garovic, M.D., Ph.D. is the Penske Foundation Professor in Clinical Medicine, Chair of Nephrology and Hypertension, Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Dean of Clinical and Translational Science at the Mayo Clinic. She is practicing nephrologist, and NIH-supported basic, clinical, and translational investigator. She has made signal contributions to our understanding of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and to the prediction, diagnosis, management and remote consequences of preeclampsia. She has translated her research into practice, leading the writing group for the American Heart Association (AHA) statement on hypertension in pregnancy, with her work recognized by the Moser Clinical Hypertension Award and the Corcoran Lectureship from the AHA and the Barbara Murphy Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Nephrology. In her talk entitled, “Hypertension in Pregnancy and Future Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease,” she will share her work, spanning the translational continuum, to improve women’s health.
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