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Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, Director of Clinical Research for the Division of Cardiology and Vice Chair of Clinical Research for the Department of Medicine was named in a recent article by Becker’s ASC Review as one of 5 Cardiology Leaders to Watch in 2025.

When Ashley Brooks, RN, BSN, was born, the first hint her parents received that something was out of the ordinary was that nurses didn’t bring their infant daughter from the nursery to their room when it was time to eat. She had been taken to the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Something was different about Ashley’s heart, but physicians didn’t quite know what. Answers finally came when Ashley was 4 and doctors diagnosed her with restrictive cardiomyopathy, a heart condition in which the heart muscle is too stiff to pump blood properly. Ashley’s childhood, however, was pretty normal—until she turned 18. That year, while she was a senior in high school, she had a stroke, and her doctors decided it was time for her to get on the wait list for a heart transplant. Over the course of two years, her condition worsened, and in 2005, when she was 20, Ashley got the call. There was a heart ready for her.

Sumanth Prabu, MD, Lewin Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases and Chief of the WashU Cardiovascular Division, co-authored the 2025 scientific statement published by the American College of Cardiology on the role of inflammation in cardiovascular disease. The new statement reviews residual inflammatory risk, screening & management, and new anti-inflammatory strategies.

Mark Huffman, MD, MPH, William Bowen Endowed Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division and Co-Director of the WashU Global Health Center, will be a featured presenter at the South Asia Forum for Clinical Development in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This year will be the fourth for the SAF, and programming will focus on non-communicable cardiovascular, […]