2025 Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture – Judith S. Hochman, MD, FAHA

Judith S. Hochman, MD, FAHA

NYU Grossman School of Medicine New York, New York

Dr. Judith Hochman, is Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Sciences, founding Co-Director of the NYU Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Harold Snyder Family Professor and Associate Director, Division of Cardiology, and Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at NYU Langone Health/NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dr. Hochman received her MA in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard and MD from Harvard Medical School. She was a CCU and step-down unit director for 20 years. She developed and led the NHLBI SHOCK trial, which was the first randomized trial of any therapy for AMI complicated by CS. This showed a large and durable mortality benefit for emergency revascularization and led to new guideline recommendations and an increasing use of revascularization with concomitant reduced mortality. She also was the first to report the finding of SIRS in AMI with CS and developed and executed the first trial testing a pharmacologic agent for CS — an agent that blocks iNOS-mediated hypotension.

She developed and led other NHLBI-funded trials that led to new/revised recommendations in Guidelines, including OAT, ISCHEMIA and ACTIV4a. She was the first to study sex differences in ACS.

Dr. Hochman has served on the NHLBI Board of External Experts, ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines, AHA Strategic Advisory Coordinating Committee and FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee. She was the inaugural director of the AHA-funded Soter Center for Women’s Cardiovascular Research. She has authored more than 500 publications and serves on many Editorial Boards.

She is the recipient of the 2008 AHA Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award, 2014 AHA Clinical Research Prize, ACC 2016 Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical Domain), AHA 2018 Council on Clinical Cardiology James B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology 2020 Rene Laennec Lectureship, and 2023 AHA CLCD Distinguished Achievement Award and 2023 Distinguished Scientist Award.