Nanette Wenger Lectureship

History of the Nanette Wenger Lectureship:

When Nanette K. Wenger, MD, professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine began her career, heart disease was something doctors thought only affected men. Today, the American Society for Preventive Cardiology honors her significant contributions as a champion for women’s heart health with a lectureship in her name. “Dr. Wenger is an icon in many aspects of cardiology, but perhaps her greatest achievement involves her commitment to exposing the previously unrecognized toll cardiovascular disease takes on women,” says Seth J. Baum, MD, immediate past president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. “It is safe to say that without Dr. Wenger’s tireless efforts; women’s cardiovascular care would not have advanced to where it is today. We all owe her a tremendous debt of gratitude. There is no one who could better speak to the cause of women and heart health than Dr. Nanette K. Wenger."

2025 Nanette Wenger, MD Award Recipient

Harmony Reynolds, MD

Joel E. and Joan L. Smilow Professor of Cardiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Dr. Harmony Reynolds is the Joel E. and Joan L. Smilow Professor of Cardiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she directs the Sarah Ross Soter Center for Women’s Cardiovascular Research and co-directs of the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. She is dedicated to improving the health of women through research, clinical care and education. Dr. Reynolds’ research career has been focused on mechanisms and outcomes of cardiovascular disease in women and testing of treatment strategies for ischemic heart disease in clinical trials. She is particularly well known for her work in myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) and stable ischemic heart disease with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA). Dr. Reynolds is the associate director of the clinical coordinating center for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-funded, international, multi-center ISCHEMIA trial. In addition, she was the principal investigator of the CIAO-ISCHEMIA study, an international, multi-center, NHLBI-funded study researching the relationship between changes in symptoms and changes in stress test results over time in patients with INOCA. She is currently PI of the INOCA-CARE randomized trial evaluating cardiac rehabilitation in INOCA patients. Dr. Reynolds’ clinical efforts include cardiology practice at NYU Langone Health, with a focus on cardiovascular disease in women and the problems that disproportionately affect women, such as MINOCA, INOCA, coronary dissection and takotsubo syndrome. She is recognized as an Exceptional Woman in Medicine and a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly. Dr. Reynolds supervises fellows in the John Wyckoff cardiology clinic at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest cardiology clinic in the United States. She received her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and completed her training in internal medicine and cardiology at NYU and Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Reynolds was named an AHA Founders Affiliate Rock Star of Science. She was the NYU CTSI Mentor of the Year and received the Doris Duke Paragon Award for Research Excellence in 2023, and received the American College of Cardiology Bernadine Healy Leadership Award in Women’s CV Disease in 2024.

Previous Winners of the Nanette Wenger Lectureship

2024 C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
2023 Janet S. Wright, MD, MACC
2022 Carl J. Pepine, MD, MACC
2021 JoAnn Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH
2020 Leslee J. Shaw, PhD, FACC, MASNC, FAHA, FSCCT
2019 Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA
2018 Lori Mosca
2016 Roxana Mehran
2015 Mary McGowan