Dr. Hina Chaudhry
 

Dr. Chaudhry holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Biology with a thesis in Physics from MIT, and obtained her M.D. with Honors from Harvard Medical School. She is board-certified by the American Board of Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease.

She has published in numerous medical and scientific journals, been an invited speaker at major international conferences, and has been interviewed for NBC news, Business Week, and Reuters regarding cardiac repair. She completed her fellowship training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the American Heart Association's highest award for cardiology fellows, the Clinician-Scientist Award, one of ten awarded nationally. She was also the top-ranked cardiology fellow in the U.S. for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award. She then joined the faculty at Columbia University where she held an endowed chair as an Irving Scholar, Columbia University's highest award for its young medical faculty. Some of her recent work was selected as one of the "Highlights" of the European Society of Cardiology Congress in September 2005. She was Columbia University's sole 2006 nominee for the W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research Program and a 2007 nominee for the Burroughs Wellcome Trust Clinical Scientist Award. In March 2008, she was recruited to Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure and Director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine.

In addition to clinical patient care and teaching, she runs an NIH-funded research program investigating mechanisms of cardiac regeneration. Her findings regarding key genetic regulators of cell division in the heart and the use of stem cells will help pave the way for growing new heart muscle cells in patients after a heart attack. She has several patents pending for methods to prevent degeneration of heart tissue after heart attack or during heart failure. She is also the founder and chief scientific officer of VentriNova, Inc., a biotech start-up company aimed at developing clinical treatments based on her research findings.

In addition to her academic and professional interests, Dr. Chaudhry has held leadership positions in several Pakistani-American organizations, including the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America and the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America. She won the Dr. Abdus Salam Prize from the Pakistan League of America in 2006 for her scientific endeavors and her assistance to the government and people of Pakistan during the Kashmir earthquake in 2005. She has also served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of State on U.S.-Pakistan Relations through the Aspen Institute, is a member of Operation Heartbeat, and serves on the advisory board of Turning Point.

Hina Chaudhry Profiled in the Esquire Magazine Dec 2008