Heart Matters

Dr. Dustin Sulak, an integrative medicine physician specializing in osteopathy, mind-body medicine, and medical cannabis, talks about the impact of cannabis on the cardiovascular system.

What do we need to know about a career in cardiology? Dr. Alan Brown meets with Dr. Heval Kelli, a cardiologist at the Northside Hospital in Atlanta, and Alan Amedi, a first-year medical school student at Emory University, to explore their experiences in the cardiology field and learn about their perspectives on training.

Dr. Yvonne Michael, an Associate Professor at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, shares her findings and discusses preventative measures we can share with postmenopausal patients to help them combat risk factors for coronary heart disease.

What do we need to know about cardiovascular complications during pregnancy? Dr. Nanette Wenger, a Professor of Medicine in the division of cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, reviews what cardiologists know about pregnancy complications and the risk of coronary artery disease.

How does the long-term absence of gravity impact our hearts? Is there anything we can do to protect our cardiovascular health in outer space, and what insights can this research teach us about how our heart health here is on earth? Joining Dr. Matthew Sorrentino to answer these and other questions is Dr. James MacNamara, an advanced cardiography fellow and author of a recent research paper published in Circulation studying the cardiac effects of extreme duration space flight.

Is there a relationship between pregnancy complications and subsequent coronary disease? Dr. Nanette Wenger, a Professor of Medicine in the division of cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, discusses a recent study exploring this correlation in Black women and shares what cardiologists need to know about pregnancy complications.

How much do we understand the non-traditional risk factors of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD, in women? Dr. Erin Michos, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Women's Cardiovascular Health Center at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, meets with Dr. Alan Brown to review ASCVD risk factors in women.

Dr. Sandeep R. Das, Professor of Medicine in the Cardiology Division at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, sits down with Dr. Matthew Sorrentino to discuss therapies from the 2020 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathways on Novel Therapies for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Dr. Erin Michos, the Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health and the Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Odenton, Maryland briefly discusses clinical practice updates for cardiologists from the 2020 Expert Consensus Decision Pathway.