Guest Speaker: Vesna D. Garovic, MD, PhD 

Vesna D. Garovic, MD, PhD is the Penske Foundation Professor in Clinical Medicine, Chair of Nephrology and Hypertension, Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Dean of Clinical and Translational Science at the Mayo Clinic. She is practicing nephrologist, and NIH- supported basic, clinical, and translational investigator. She has made signal contributions to our understanding of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and to the prediction, diagnosis, management and remote consequences of preeclampsia. She has translated her research into practice, leading the writing group for the AHA statement on hypertension in pregnancy, with her work recognized by Moser Clinical Hypertension Award and the Corcoran Lectureship from the AHA and the Barbara Murphy Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASN. In her talk entitled, “Hypertension in pregnancy and future cardiovascular and kidney disease,” she will share her work, spanning the translational continuum, to improve women’s health.