2024 Kenneth D. Bloch Memorial Lecture - Jane E. Freedman, MD, FAHA

 

Jane Freedman, MD, is the Gladys Parkinson Stahlman professor of cardiovascular research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the past director of the division of cardiovascular medicine and physician-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute. She is the interim chair of the department of medicine at Vanderbilt and physician-in-chief for Vanderbilt University Hospital. She completed residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Freedman has served as chair of the national American Heart Association Peer Review Committee and is the current editor-in-chief for the leading basic cardiovascular journal, Circulation Research. She is co-director of the Vanderbilt Cardiovascular T32 training grant and is PI on several NIH awards. She oversees two research programs. The first is a basic science laboratory that examines the role of immunity, infection and inflammation on atherothrombotic disease; the lab made the initial discoveries demonstrating the role of platelets in mediating human immunity. The second facility uses high-throughput technologies to study gene expression and proteomic data for a wide range of clinical and translational projects.