C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D.

Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz is director of the Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where she is a professor of medicine. She is a pioneer in the study of women’s heart health and preventive cardiology.  Dr. Bairey Merz was a principal investigator in the NHLBI-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) initiative, an ongoing study that has provided new insights into understanding heart disease in women. Among its findings to date: the discovery that women with evidence of heart disease often have small artery dysfunction, which can cause their condition to be overlooked and undiagnosed using male-standard testing.   Dr. Bairey Merz is a strong advocate for correcting gender inequality in research and for educating women on how to recognize heart disease symptoms.

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