C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program and Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at the Smidt Heart Institute, all at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. She also is professor of medicine at Cedars-Sinai and chair of the National Institutes of Health–sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) initiative, which is investigating methods for more effective diagnosis and evaluation of coronary artery disease in women.
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