C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., a board-certified specialist in cardiovascular diseases, has served since 1991 as Director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In 2001, she was appointed Chair holder of the Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health and Medical Director of the Women's Health program. She also serves as Chair of a multi-center NHLBI study called Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation (WISE).