1st Annual Virtual Symposium on Women's Cardiovascular Health and Prevention

This inaugural educational program will bring together nationally recognized experts to provide an evidence-based update on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular disease in women. The symposium agenda features sessions spanning women's cardiovascular risk assessment, imaging, lipids, cardiometabolic health, and emerging prevention strategies. Expected attendees are cardiologists, primary care clinicians, advanced practice providers, fellows, and other healthcare professionals committed to improving cardiovascular outcomes for women.

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Course Directors

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, MASPC

Professor of Cardiology Davis Endowed Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Health Department of Cardiology Houston Methodist Heart and Vascular Center

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, MASPC, FESC, FSCCT(hon) is the Immediate Past President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. She is a professor of cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles and is the director of prevention, the associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and holds the Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine and Research. She was formerly the inaugural Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the best-seller, “Saving Women’s Hearts”. She served as the chair of the national chest pain guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. She also served as editor-in-chief of CardioSmart, the patient education arm of the American College of Cardiology.

Her exceptional commitment to the study of women and cardiac diseases has won her numerous awards and distinctions, including being named by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of Chicago’s Top 40 under 40. In 2011, she received the first CREDO (Coalition to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Outcomes) Award from the American College of Cardiology that was given to honor her contributions to improve cardiovascular healthcare of women patients. In 2012, she was awarded the National Red Dress Award for her efforts in raising awareness of heart disease in women and advancing research in this field. In 2019, she was chosen as the most influential woman in Arizona and received the 2019 American College of Cardiology’s Bernadine Healy Award for her leadership and accomplishment in the field of cardiovascular disease in women. In 2023, she was awarded the Arthur Agatston Award in Cardiovascular Disease prevention from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT).

Lily Dastmalchi, DO, FASPC

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute

Dr. Dastmalchi is a cardiologist at Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute, specializing in nutrition, cardiometabolic health and women's cardiovascular health. As part of the Women's Cardiovascular Program, she leads the Menopause program through Inova Health Systems. Dr. Dastmalchi is passionate about women's cardiometabolic health, she has led an expert analysis emphasizing the importance of increasing clinical training in the menopausal life stage to help improve cardiovascular outcomes. Her dedication to nutrition across health care institutions and improving inpatient hospital menus has made her a leader in the nutrition space. She now co-directs a clinical elective for University of Virginia medical students in nutrition to help teach the next generation of physicians how to tailor nutrition in their clinical practice. Her interest in cardiometabolic health has led her to win scholarship awards with the Cardiometabolic Health Congress and as a finalist for the American College of Cardiology Shark Tank Women's Health Research competition.  Dr. Dastmalchi hopes to integrate her interests to improve cardiovascular outcomes in women through pivotal stages in their life.

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