Merry L. Lindsey is an American cardiac physiologist. She is the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Chair of the

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Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and the director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Research. In 2021, Lindsey was appointed

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of the ''American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology.''

Early life and education

Lindsey was born Stuart, Florida in 1970 and raised in

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, where she attended South Fork High School. Following high school, Lindsey earned her undergraduate degree in biology from

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and her PhD in cardiovascular sciences from

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Career

Upon completing her PhD, Lindsey worked at the

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as an

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before joining the faculty at the

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. In 2019, she left the Mississippi Center for Heart Research to accept an appointment as the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Chair of the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology at the

. Upon joining the department, Lindsey also became the founding director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Research. She joined

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as the dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. In 2021, Lindsey was appointed

of the ''American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology'', a journal published by the

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''.'' She received the Vincenzo Panagia Distinguished Lecture Award from the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at St-Boniface Hospital Research in 2021, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the British Society for Cardiovascular Research in 2022.

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