C. Noel Bairey Merz & Barbara Streisand: Women & Heart Disease
C. Noel Bairey Merz says heart disease kills more women per year at all ages than breast cancer. Barbara Streisand is the benefactor to ‘The Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardiovascular Research and Education Programme. Together, they share the importance of spreading awareness and the facts about heart disease and women.’
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ABOUT C. Noel Bairey Merz
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD is a “nationally recognised leader in preventive cardiology, diagnostic cardiological testing, women’s health, and heart disease in women. She is the Director of the Women’s Heart Center that provides risk assessment, diagnosis and heart disease care that is specifically tailored to women.
Her primary area of research involves the development and prevention of heart disease in women, including the role of nutrition, exercise and stress, with an emphasis on gender and sex-specific differences.
She mentors and supervises the research of many junior faculty and trainees; created a programme whereby faculty cardiologists mentor and provide career counsel to young women coming up in the field. She has received numerous awards and honours, and has appeared frequently in the media, is a recognised authority on the subject of heart disease and stress, heart disease in women and preventive cardiology.”
ABOUT Barbara Streisand
“On April 16th, 2008, Barbra Streisand endowed $5 million to Cedars-Sinai for the creation of The Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardiovascular Research and Education Programme. The endowment supports the work of the Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center under the direction of C. Noel Bairey Merz., MD
It is used to improve treatment options for women at risk or with heart disease by providing permanent funding to: expand current and future research efforts and create advanced diagnostics, treatments and technologies; and facilitate better understanding of sex and gender differences in heart disease.
The endowment also provides permanent funding for education that will empower women with vital information about female cardiovascular disease and raise awareness of the disease within the medical community; enable this type of programme to be expanded to other medical centres, locally, nationally and internationally.
It will be used to support sex-specific cardiovascular research and education for generations to come and serve as the cornerstone of the Women’s Heart Center under the central umbrella of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.”
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