Get to know our special guest Dr. Jane Leopold! Dr. Jane Leopold is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a clinical interventional cardiologist, Director of the Women’s Interventional Cardiology Health Initiative and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Cores at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is an internationally recognized vascular biologist with expertise in cardiopulmonary disease endophenotyping to understand the role of vascular structural and functional changes in the pathobiology of cardiopulmonary vascular disease. Her clinical research involves using precision medicine approaches to characterize the pathobiological mechanisms underlying complex cardiopulmonary vascular diseases. Her work has been funded by the NIH/NHLBI, the American Heart Association, the Lerner Foundation and she was named a Thomas W. Smith MD Scholar. She has coauthored numerous scientific manuscripts, editorial and book chapters and patents based on her work. She is the recipient of several research awards and was inducted as a member of the Association of University Cardiologists. She is the Chair of the American Heart Association’s Research Funding Committee, and a member of has served on national and international peer review committees. She has a longstanding interest in academic publishing and is a member of several editorial boards, was a former associate editor at Circulation and Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions and is currently the Deputy Editor for cardiology at the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, she actively mentors and promotes the work of students, fellows, and early career faculty, many of whom have gone on to national and international leadership positions.