2024 Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer - Véronique L. Roger, MD, MPH, FAHA

Dr. Véronique Roger received her medical degree in 1986 from Sorbonne University in Paris, France and her Master in Public Health (Epidemiology) at the University of Minnesota in 1996. Following her cardiology training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, she joined the faculty in 1992 and rose to the ranks of Professor in Medicine (2002) and Epidemiology (2006). During her tenure at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Roger held various leadership roles, including Chair of the Department of Health Sciences Research, and was a member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors and Board of Trustees.

Dr. Roger served on the NHLBI Advisory Council and the NHLBI Board of Scientific Counselors. She chaired the Epidemiology Council of the American Heart Association 2018-2020 and was recognized as American Heart Association Distinguished Investigator in 2019. She is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians. In 2021, Dr. Roger joined the Division of Intramural Research at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) as senior investigator and founding chief of the Epidemiology and Community Health Branch.

The unifying theme of Dr Roger’s work is the epidemiology of heart diseases, and their occurrence and outcomes in communities. As a physician scientist, Dr Roger has employed, directly and through collaborations, multidisciplinary methods including epidemiology, outcomes and health care delivery analyses, behavioral sciences and the use of electronic health records in population research applied to case ascertainment, risk prediction and pragmatic trials.

Dr. Roger’s work at NHLBI centers on understanding the phenotypic expressions of heart failure and their connections with aging, multimorbidity and social determinants of health in communities. Recent studies in her lab focus on the molecular taxonomy of heart failure using proteomics and on the implementation of methods to access and analyze large scale datasets.