Course Director(s)

Nanette Wenger, MD, Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

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Nanette K. Wenger, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.

Dr. Wenger is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. She is Chief of Cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital and a Consultant to the Emory Heart and Vascular Center.

Coronary heart disease in women is one of Dr. Wenger’s major clinical and research interests. She chaired the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Conference on Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women. Dr. Wenger has expertise in cardiac rehabilitation. She chaired the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Rehabilitation after Cardiovascular Disease, and co-chaired the Guideline Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation for the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Dr. Wenger has had a longstanding interest in geriatric cardiology, and is a Past President of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology.

Dr. Wenger received the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from Hunter College in 1993, the President’s Woman in Science Award of the American Medical Women’s Association in 1993, and the Physician of the Year Award of the American Heart Association in 1998. In 1999, Dr. Wenger received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Scientific Councils of the American Heart Association and the American Heart Association’s Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award. In 2000, she was chosen by Atlanta Women in Law and Medicine to receive the Shining Star Award for her distinguished career in cardiology and women’s health issues. Dr. Wenger also received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award, the highest award of the American Medical Women’s Association. In 2000, Dr. Wenger was presented the James D. Bruce Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians for distinguished contributions in preventive medicine. In 2001, the American Heart Association presented her the R. Bruce Logue Award for Excellence in Medicine, and in 2002 she received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology. In 2003, she was included in the National Library of Medicine Exhibition Changing the Face of Medicine: A History of American Women Physicians. In 2004, Dr. Wenger received the Gold Heart Award, the highest award of the American Heart Association. At the Emory University Commencement in 2004, Dr. Wenger received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award of the University and the Evangeline Papageorge Alumni Teaching Award of the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Wenger was selected to deliver the 2004 Laennec Lecture of the American Heart Association. In 2005, Dr. Wenger received the Health-Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. In 2006, Dr. Wenger received the Hatter Award, an international award for the advancement of cardiovascular science. She is listed in Best Doctors in America.

Dr. Wenger has authored or coauthored over 1200 scientific and review articles and book chapters.

Faculty

 

Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH

Professor of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

 

Henry Black, MD

Associate Vice President for Research

Department of Preventive Medicine

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center

Chicago, IL

 

Alexandra Lansky, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine and Cardiology

Columbia University Medical Center

New York, NY

 

Samia Mora, MD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

 

Carl J. Pepine, MD

Professor of Medicine

Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine

University of Florida College of Medicine

Gainesville, FL

 

John Puskas, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Associate Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Paulo Raggi, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine and Radiology

Director, Cardiac CT Unit

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Rita Redberg, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine

Director, Cardiovascular Women's Health Services

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health

San Francisco, CA

 

Leslee Shaw, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA