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If you're seeking a highly qualified expert to discuss the new AHA Guidelines, C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, is available. A board-certified specialist in cardiovascular diseases, she has served since 1991 as Director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In 2001, she was appointed Director of the Women's Health program and Chair holder of the Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health. She currently serves as Chair of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Committee.
An associate professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Dr. Bairey Merz is well known for research she has conducted in such areas as women and heart disease, mental stress and heart disease, the role of exercise and stress management in reversing disease, and the role of nutrition in heart disease.
She is a co-investigator in Ayurvedic Medicine Efficacy studies sponsored by the NIH's National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). She also is a co-investigator of the Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study that is evaluating the role of antioxidants and pro-oxidants in cardiovascular disease. This research is sponsored by the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
Notably, Dr. Bairey Merz serves as Chair of a multi-center study called Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) that received its initial funding in 1997 from the NHLBI. Because the study triggered many new projects, the NHLBI announced in 2001 funding for a five-year WISE extension. Cedars-Sinai's Women's Guild also awarded a $150,000 grant to fund research that grew out of the initial project.
Dr. Bairey Merz is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology. Through March 2002 she serves as Chair of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Committee and she sits on the ACC's Hypertensive Diseases Committee. She also is a member of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology's Scientific Council on Rehabilitation of Cardiac Patients, and the NIH Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior Study Section 2.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the Western United States. For the fifth straight two-year period, Cedars-Sinai has been named Southern California's gold standard in health care in an independent survey. Cedars-Sinai is internationally renowned for its diagnostic and treatment capabilities and its broad spectrum of programs and services, as well as breakthrough biomedical research and superlative medical education. The Medical Center ranks among the top seven non-university hospitals in the nation for its research activities.
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