Nanette Wenger

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Nanette Wenger
Born (1930-09-03) September 3, 1930 (age 93)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Education Hunter College 1951, Harvard Medical School 1954
Known forFocus on heart disease in women
Medical career
FieldCardiology

Nanette Kass Wenger (born September 3, 1930) is an American clinical cardiologist and professor emerita at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. [1]

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Early life and education

Nanette Wenger was born September 3, 1930, in New York City to parents who had emigrated from Russia to the United States and settled in New York. [2] [3] Her early education was in the New York City public schools. In 1951 she graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College in New York. [4] She received her doctor of medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1954 as one of their first female graduates, [5] and began her postgraduate work at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she became the first woman to be chief resident in the cardiology department. [5] After her residency, she moved to Emory University, where she started as an instructor and eventually was named full professor of medicine in 1971. [4]

Contributions to medicine

Wenger has been a leader in the cardiology field as she has authored and co-authored more than 1,300 scientific and review articles and book chapters. [6] Over the course of her career, Wenger became one of the first doctors to focus on heart disease in women, since this disease was initially thought to primarily affect men. [7] [8] In 1993 Wenger co-wrote a landmark review article [9] that demonstrated that cardiovascular disease does similarly affect women since, at the time, women were more likely than men to die from the disease. [10] She also helped write the 2007 Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women. [6] She has devoted the rest of her career to understand how heart disease, specifically coronary artery disease, affects women as well as advocating for the need to disaggregate study results and report gender-specific analyses from clinical trials. [7] [10]

Wenger was editor of the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology for 15 years and was also a founder of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology, which is now the Council on the Cardiac Care of Older Adults at the American College of Cardiology. [11]

Personal life

She is married to Dr. Julius Wenger, a gastroenterologist; she has three daughters. In 1979, she founded the Atlanta Women’s Network, which continues to promote and enhance the success of professional women. [11]

Selected awards and honors

Some of the awards/honors Wenger has acquired include:

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References

  1. ↑ EmoryDeptofMedicine (2019-01-16). "Highlighted Researcher: Nanette Wenger". Emory Daily Pulse. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. ↑ Alpert JS, Fye WB, Hurst JW (2004-02-01). "Nanette K. Wenger: A woman's life in cardiology". Clinical Cardiology. 27 (2): 114–115. doi:10.1002/clc.4960270218. ISSN   1932-8737. PMC   6654141 . PMID   14979635.
  3. ↑ Basu T (2017-11-07). "Meet The Feminist Jewish Doctor Who Fought For Civil Rights – At All Costs". The Forward. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Changing the face of medicine: Nanette Wenger".
  5. 1 2 Oliviero H (2017-12-12). "Meet a local cardiologist who changed how we think about heart disease". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  6. 1 2 "Nanette Wenger". Grady Health. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  7. 1 2 "Wenger Puts Women at Heart of Research – The NIH Record – July 13, 2018". NIH Record. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  8. ↑ "A Champion of Women's Heart Health Tells How the Journey Starts With Better Data". AJMC. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  9. ↑ Wenger, Nanette K.; Speroff, Leon; Packard, Barbara (22 July 1993). "Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women". New England Journal of Medicine. 329 (4): 247–256. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199307223290406 . PMID   8316269.
  10. 1 2 "A Champion of Women's Heart Health Tells How the Journey Starts With Better Data". AJMC. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  11. 1 2 Today, Cardiology; March 2013. "Nanette K. Wenger, MD: A lifetime of volunteerism and firsts". www.healio.com. Retrieved 2019-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 HealthManagement.org. "Radiology Management, ICU Management, Healthcare IT, Cardiology Management, Executive Management". HealthManagement. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  13. ↑ "Elizabeth Blackwell Award". American Medical Women's Association.
  14. ↑ "Career Development Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, Offers Career Advice For Female FITs". American College of Cardiology. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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