CFAR Seminar with Dr. Priscilla Hsue

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Talk title: TBD Bio: Dr. Priscilla Hsue completed her medical school, residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco, where she joined the faculty in 2002 and was the Chief of Cardiology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital at UCSF since 2020 where she founded the HIV Cardiology Clinic and co-directed the UCSF Center for Vascular Excellence. In July 2024 she became Chief of Cardiology at UCLA, holds the Chizuko and Nobuyuki Kawata Chair in Cardiology, and is Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Hsue’s research interest is in the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and treatment of cardiovascular disease in the setting of infectious disease with a focus on HIV-associated inflammation and atherosclerosis. Throughout her career, she has developed multidisciplinary research collaborations and oversees a portfolio of clinical and translational studies in the U.S. and internationally. She has had extensive experience in leading both single center and multicenter clinical trials using cardiometabolic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory interventions, and polypill in the setting of atherosclerosis, HIV, rheumatoid arthritis, COVID-19, and heart failure. Recently, she has started global work to evaluate the cardiopulmonary sequelae of TB infection at the Uganda Heart Institute. Since 2005, she has been a continuous recipient of NIH funding and is currently PI on numerous NIH grants. Dr. Hsue is the immediate past president of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), prior chair of several National Heart, Lung, and Blood study sections, is a member of the Association of American Physicians, Association of University Cardiologists, and is the Chair of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation's scientific committee. She is an Associate Editor for Circulation. She has had the privilege of mentoring numerous students, trainees and faculty and has been recognized by multiple mentoring awards.