Leslee J. Shaw, PhD is a leading clinical researcher whose major focus is clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, including a special focus on sex differences. She is an endowed chair and tenured professor of Cardiology. She is the Director of the Blavatnik Family Institute for Women’s Health Research. Dr. Shaw has published more than 1,000 publications and presented more than 500 abstracts in major scientific meetings in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. She has been ranked as one of the top 1% of clinical researchers with the most highly cited publications (awarded by Thomson Reuters), with an H-index of 154.
Based on her scientific contributions, in 2009, Dr Shaw was recognized with the Simon Dack Award for academic excellence from the American College of Cardiology and, in 2013, the Coalition to Reduce Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Award for her research contributions in racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease. In 2013, she received the Women’s Day Red Dress Award for her scientific contributions to women’s health. In 2020, she was awarded the Bernadine Healy Leadership Award in Women’s Cardiovascular Disease from the American College of Cardiology. Also, in 2020, she received the Nanette Wenger Award from the American Society of Preventive Cardiology, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Shaw is a past president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. The only individual having served as president of two medical societies within cardiovascular medicine.
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