"Cardiovascular Health and Systemic Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases" with Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD

Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD MPH FACC FASNC is a Board Certified Cardiologist at the Emory Heart and Vascular Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Isiadinso earned a dual degree in Medicine and Public Health during medical school. She joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in 2010 after completing her Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at Temple University Hospital. She is Board Certified in General Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography.She is clinical cardiologist in the Emory Center for Heart Disease Prevention. She is a dedicated educator and serves as the CME Course Co-Director for both the Emory Symposium on Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention and Education (ESCAPE) Conference and the Annual Emory Women and Heart Disease Conference. Dr. Isiadinso served as the Director of the Emory Women's Heart Center at Decatur and Lithonia. She is passionate about preventing heart disease in women.Dr. Isiadinso's clinical research interest is focused on cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (specifically SLE and RA). For reasons that are not fully understood, this patient population is at increased risk for CVD and has a greater prevalence of traditional CV risk factors compared with the general population. Dr. Isiadinso's interest is to gain a better understanding of this increased risk through collaborative research projects and increase awareness among patients and clinicians through educational activities. Her clinical practice includes providing CVD screening, evaluation, and treatment of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases.This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visithttps://bit.ly/EmoryLM