Albert also received the distinguished 2020 AHA Population Science Award. Additionally, she is one of two recipients nationally of the prestigious 2018 AHA Merit award for visionary research and is the first woman and under-represented racial/ethnic person to receive this award. Albert is also a recipient of the American Heart Association (AHA) COVID-19 Rapid Track Grant. She is recipient of sustained research funding as principal investigator including NIH R01 funding, funding from Robert Wood Johnson (Harold Amos Scholar), Kellogg and Doris Duke Foundations. A central component of her current work focuses on developing innovative implementation strategies to curb adversity related CVD risk, particularly in women and diverse racial and ethnic populations with a focus on cumulative toxic stress. Her research has followed a bold, non-traditional path for cardiovascular disease research. Albert has had a longstanding commitment to health equity and is engaged in cutting-edge research that innovatively seeks to incorporate “biology” with social determinants of health to transform CVD science and healthcare of global populations, i.e “the biology of adversity”. As a physician-scientist-epidemiologist, Dr. Albert’s clinical expertise involves both taking care of the most critically ill heart disease patients and preventive cardiology at UCSF. She was previously the Vivian Beaumont Allen Endowed Professor/Chair and Chief of Cardiology at Howard University. Albert then completed Cardiovascular Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she rose in the ranks to an Associate Professor in Medicine. She completed Internal Medicine Residency and served as Chief Medical Resident at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Albert is a graduate of Haverford College, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Admissions Dean for UCSF Medical School and Director of the CeNter for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center). J Ira and Nikki Harris Family Research Awardīrigham and Women's Hospital/Kraft Minority Faculty Development Award Second Annual Heart of Women's Health CREDO Award The Haverford Award, recognizing an alumnus who uses their knowledge to the benefit of societyįeatured "Editor's Choice & Scientist": MA Health Care Reform, Race/Ethnicity and CVD On-call service available at all other times via Royal Brompton switchboard.American Society for Clinical Investigation Heart valve bank manager telephone: 020 7351 8783 Royal Brompton Hospital, Level 1, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NP The pulmonary valve will include the bifurcation of the trunk into the left and right pulmonary arteries. The dissected aortic valve will ideally include the ascending aorta up to the first branch. If the cause of death is cardiac related, the heart valve bank can arrange for a histopathology examination to be performed on the heart following dissection and a report sent to the referring doctor and / or coroner If relatives wish to discuss the donation of heart valves or other tissues, at the time of death of a loved one then please contact the regional team of specialist nurses for organ donation (SN-ODs), for further information. The heart valve bank is licensed by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) to procure, process, test, store and distribute tissue under the Human Tissue Act 2004 and the Human Tissue (Quality & Safety for Human Application) Regulations 2007. In addition to supplying valves for cases in this Trust, the department also supplies many of the other cardiac centres in the UK. They can remain frozen in the freezer for up to five years. Following microbiology testing, the valves are cryopreserved and stored at very low temperatures until required by the surgeon. The department routinely dissects the aortic and pulmonary valves from the hearts and then disinfects them using antibiotics. This can be from the donor directly in cases where the heart is taken at the time of a heart transplant from a living donor, or from relatives in the case of a deceased donor. The valves are donated from suitable donors only after obtaining consent. The heart valve bank procures human heart valves from suitable donors for use in valve replacement or valve reconstruction surgery.
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