E. Magnus Ohman, MD: Welcome to another edition of Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists. We are very fortunate today to have Dr Noel Bairey Merz with us from Los Angeles. She is the director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and the Women's Guild Chair of Women's Health at Cedars-Sinai.
I have done a little bit of a Google search, and you might be the only one who has a singer/movie star directorship. We have to ask, how did that come about?
Legacy and Legends
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD: I was thinking about legacy. I was thinking that women's heart health was too important to be a "flavor of the month." Often, women's health at our federal agencies waxes and wanes because it is associated with reproductive health. There are eras where it is funded and eras when it is not funded because of reproductive issues.
About 15 -20 years ago, I was working on how we could create a legacy where we were not dependent on federal funding. I read in the Los Angeles Timesthat Barbra Streisand was going on tour, and as per her routine, the proceeds would be donated to a philanthropic cause.
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Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists: Noel Bairey Merz
Interviewer: E. Magnus Ohman, MD; Interviewee: C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
DisclosuresJune 26, 2018
E. Magnus Ohman, MD: Welcome to another edition of Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists. We are very fortunate today to have Dr Noel Bairey Merz with us from Los Angeles. She is the director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and the Women's Guild Chair of Women's Health at Cedars-Sinai.
I have done a little bit of a Google search, and you might be the only one who has a singer/movie star directorship. We have to ask, how did that come about?
Legacy and Legends
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD: I was thinking about legacy. I was thinking that women's heart health was too important to be a "flavor of the month." Often, women's health at our federal agencies waxes and wanes because it is associated with reproductive health. There are eras where it is funded and eras when it is not funded because of reproductive issues.
About 15 -20 years ago, I was working on how we could create a legacy where we were not dependent on federal funding. I read in the Los Angeles Timesthat Barbra Streisand was going on tour, and as per her routine, the proceeds would be donated to a philanthropic cause.
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Interviewer
E. Magnus Ohman, MD
Professor of Medicine ; Vice-Chair, Department of Medicine, Development & Innovation; Kent & Siri Rawson Director, Duke Program for Advanced Coronary Disease; Associate Director, Duke Heart Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Disclosure: E. Magnus Ohman, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
Serve(d) as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: ABIOMED; Biotie Therapies; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Chiesi; Faculty Connection, LLC; Medscape
Received research grant from: Gilead Sciences Inc. (partially supports university salary and has research grant or contract with the Duke Clinical Research Institute)
Received income in an amount equal to or greater than $250 from: ABIOMED; Biotie Therapies; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Chiesi; Faculty Connection, LLC; Medscape
Interviewee
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center; Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women's Heart Health Program; Director, Erika J. Glazer Women's Heart Research Initiative; Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center; Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Disclosure: C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
Received honorarium paid to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Atlantic Health System; Abbott Diagnostics; American College of Cardiology; Cardio NAH Health System; Expert Exchange; INOVA Health System; George Washington University; Med Ed; Northwestern; Pri-Med; Oklahoma Chapter, American College of Cardiology; Renown Health System, Reno; San Diego Heart Institute; Society of Vascular Medicine; St Francis Medical Center, Hartford; University of Minnesota; University of California, San Francisco; University of Cape Town; University of Colorado
Received honorarium for: Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health; NIH-CASE; Springer International; Decision Support in Medicine LLC