• IM/Cardiology

The research of C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, focuses on heart disease in women, preventive cardiology, coronary physiology/pathophysiology and advanced cardiac imaging, as well as alternative and complementary medicine approaches to heart disease.

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• Medical School: Harvard Medical School, 1981
• Internship: Moffitt Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1982
• Residency: Moffitt Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1985
• Fellowship: Cedars Sinai, 1988

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• Smidt Heart Institute
• Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center
• Cardio-Oncology Program
• Department of Medicine
• Women's Heart Center
• General and Preventive Cardiology
• Cardiology
• Medicine

• 2020 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Pioneer in Medicine, Annual Meeting of the Medical Staff, Cedars Sinai Medical Center , 2020
• Hopkin Heart, 2nd Annual Visiting Scholar for the Dr. Pamela Ouyanf Lectureship in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, John Hopkins, 2020
• 18th Annual Maseri-Florio International Keynote, 68th Annual Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, Louisiana , 2019
• First Prize in Cardiology – British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Awards 2019, The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 3rd Edition and ESC CardioMed, 2019
• Member, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Council, 2008

• AlBadri A, Bairey Merz C N, Johnson BD, Wei J, Mehta PK, Cook-Wiens G, Reis SE, Kelsey SF, Bittner V, Sopko G, Shaw LJ, Pepine CJ, Ahmed B. Impact of Abnormal Coronary Reactivity on Long-Term Clinical Outcomes in Women. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Feb 19;73(6):684-693. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.11.040. PMID: 30765035.PMCID: PMC6383781.
• Park SM, Wei J, Cook-Wiens G, Nelson MD, Thomson L, Berman D, Handberg E, Petersen J, Anderson D, Pepine CJ, Bairey Merz CN. Left ventricular concentric remodelling and functional impairment in women with ischaemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease and intermediate coronary flow reserve: a report from the WISE-CVD study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Mar 24. pii: jez044. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jez044. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30904924.
• Wei J, Cheng S, Bairey Merz CN. Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Causing Cardiac Ischemia in Women. JAMA. 2019 Nov 18. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.15736. PMID: 31738820. PMCID: PMC7388690.