C Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center
Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center
Director, Cedars-Sinai Clinical Scholars Program
Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women's Heart Health Program
Professor, Medicine
Clinical Office
Smidt Heart Institute
127 S San Vicente Blvd #A3600
Los Angeles, CA
90048
Phone:
310-423-9680
Fax:
310-423-9681
C Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center
Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center
Director, Cedars-Sinai Clinical Scholars Program
Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women's Heart Health Program
Professor, Medicine
Specialty
- IM/Cardiology
Clinical Areas
Angina
Chest Pain
Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)
Heart Disease
Hypertension
Lipid (Cholesterol) Disorders
Shortness of Breath (Dyspnea)
Research Profile
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.
Education
- 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
Cedars-Sinai Affiliations
Awards & Activities
- Member, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Council, 2008
- Member, National Cholesterol Education Program, 2002
- Member, Board of Trustees, American College of Cardiology, 2002
- Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health, 1998
Publications
- Bairey Merz CN, Shaw LJ, Reis SE, Bittner V, Kelsey SF, Olson M, Johnson BD, Pepine CJ, Mankad S, Sharaf BL, et al. Insights from the NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study: Part II: gender differences in presentation, diagnosis, and outcome with regard to gender-based pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and macrovascular and microvascular coronary disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47(3 Suppl):S21-29.
- Handberg E, Johnson BD, Arant CB, Wessel TR, Kerensky RA, von Mering G, Olson MB, Reis SE, Shaw L, Bairey Merz CN, et al. Impaired coronary vascular reactivity and functional capacity in women: results from the NHLBI Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47(3 Suppl):S44-49.
- Johnson BD, Shaw LJ, Pepine CJ, Reis SE, Kelsey SF, Sopko G, Rogers WJ, Mankad S, Sharaf BL, Bittner V, Bairey Merz CN. Persistent chest pain predicts cardiovascular events in women without obstructive coronary artery disease: results from the NIH-NHLBI-sponsored Women's Ischaemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study. Eur Heart J. 2006;27(12):1408-1415.
Languages Spoken
English
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