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Presentation: Sex Differences in Heart Disease
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Time: Saturday Morning
Purpose: To provide information on considering sex and ethnicity when assessing CVD risk, And management of CVD
Objectives
Identify the strengths and limitations on currently available risk stratification scores in men and women
Recognize ethnic differences in the impact of risk factors on development of subclinical atherosclerosis
Summarize differences and similarities in presentation of CVD and response to treatment in men and women
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Deputy Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Program Director of the Clinical Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Bio:
Dr. Ouyang received her medical school training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, England. After completing initial postdoctoral training in England, she completed residency training and Fellowship training in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following her fellowship she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a Professor of Medicine and faculty member of the Division of Cardiology. Dr. Ouyang was appointed Program Director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Clinical Research Unit in 2001. In 2007, the NIH funded the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Johns Hopkins, of which Dr. Ouyang is a Deputy Director.
Dr. Ouyang is an attending Cardiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center caring for patients in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit and teaches students, residents and fellows from Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She is developing the Johns Hopkins Women’s Cardiovascular Health Center, located at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with the mission to be a center of excellence for the assessment of cardiovascular risk factors and treatment of women with heart disease.
Dr. Ouyang’s areas of research include studies in ischemic heart disease. She has been an investigator in single and multicenter studies of the impact of silent ischemia in individuals with coronary disease. She is the PI on a NIH funded grant to study the effects of antioxidant doses on oxidative stress markers in patients with metabolic syndrome and diabetes. In recent years her work has focused on cardiovascular disease in women including research on the effects of hormone replacement therapy in women with coronary artery disease and coronary bypass grafts. She has a particular interest in sex differences in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This research includes the evaluation of the effects of risk factors, including sex hormones, on vascular responses, the interaction between sex hormones and metabolic syndrome, and ways to improve the assessment of coronary disease in women.