Martha Gulati (born 1969) is the past Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona, Phoenix. She previously held the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health at the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

. Gulati is the Chair of the National Chest Pain Guidelines. She is the author of the popular science book S''aving Women’s Heart'' and Editor-in-Chief of materials for the

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programme ''CardioSmart''.

Early life and education

Gulati was born in

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

. She grew up in

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, and was an undergraduate student in general sciences at

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. She attended medical school at the

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. She moved to the

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for her graduate studies, where she completed an internship and residency at the

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

. She completed a Master's degree in Cardiovascular Science at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

in 2002.

Research and career

After completing her training at

and the

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, Gulati joined the faculty at

. Her research considers women's health, with a particular focus on cardiac diseases. In 2011 Gulati published ''Saving Women's Hearts'', which explored women's health and cardiovascular disease. At

Gulati served as the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health. She was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the

education platform ''CardioSmart.org'' in 2015. In 2016 Gulati was made the Division Chief of Cardiology at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

. Gulati was the 2021 President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology.

Awards and honours

* 2005 Crain’s Chicago Business Top 40 under 40 * 2011

''Coalition to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Outcomes'' * 2012 National Red Dress Award * 2017 Outstanding Women in Business * 2019 Most Influential Woman in Arizona * 2019 American College of Cardiology’s Bernadine Healy Award

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Books

References

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