Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Presentation Abstract
Roundtable on Cardiovascular Risks and Interventions
Cardiovascular disease comprises the leading cause of maternal death in the peripartum and postpartum first year period. Within these events, Black women and other minorities are at higher risk than White women for cardiovascular events. Cardiovascular risk factors alone contribute to increased risk of a complicated pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum period. However, there is an intersection between the traditional cardiovascular risk factors and social determinants of health that exponentially increases this risk. The session will spotlight advances in the understanding and treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy and will include a patient sharing her personal experience with maternal cardiovascular complications. The subsequent cardiovascular roundtable will address pre-pregnancy and pregnancy risk factors, the intersection and interplay between cardiovascular risk and social determinants of health, and the cardiovascular events that may occur in the pre, peri, and postpartum period. The session will conclude with an open dialogue among the expert discussants.
About Dr. Bello
Dr. Natalie A. Bello is an Associate Professor and the Director of Hypertension Research in the Smidt Heart Institute’s Department of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Bello completed her undergraduate education at Cornell University, and medical school at the University of Rochester. She completed internal medicine residency and was a chief resident at Columbia University, and then moved to Boston for a cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and further research training as a T32 fellow including receiving her M.P.H. from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. In 2014, she returned to Columbia University to join the faculty in the division of cardiology as the Victoria and Esther Aboodi Assistant Professor. In September 2021, Dr. Bello joined the faculty at the Smidt Heart Institute. Dr. Bello’s professional activities include clinical research and direct patient care in hypertension as well as multimodality cardiovascular imaging with expertise in echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, and cardiac magnetic resonance. Her research focuses on better understanding the relationships between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and future cardiovascular risk, as well as the use of echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI to assess the effects of hypertension, obesity, and other cardiometabolic processes on cardiovascular structure and function.
Dr. Bello did not disclose any conflicts of interest for this workshop.