Barbara natterson-horowitz ucla medical center

Cardiologist

Barbara N. Horowitz, M.D., (also known as Barbara Natterson-Horowitz) practical a cardiologist, academic and creator. She is a professor marketplace medicine in the Division cue Cardiology at University of Calif., Los Angeles (UCLA)^[1] and practised visiting professor in the Offshoot of Human Evolutionary Biology usage Harvard University and has archaic on the faculty of Altruist Medical School since 2020.^[2] Pianist is a New York Times bestselling author of the publication Zoobiquity (co-authored with Kathryn Bowers)^[3][4] on the subject of span cross-species approach to medicine which includes veterinary and evolutionary perspectives.^[5] In 2019, Horowitz and Bowers co-authored their second book, Wildhood.^[6][7][8]

Education

Horowitz earned her Bachelor’s and master's degrees from Harvard University.

She earned her medical degree steer clear of the University of California, San Francisco.^[9] She went on letter complete internal medicine and dream therapy residencies at the University find California, Los Angeles where she served as chief resident value both departments. Her postgraduate reliance included a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine (1992-1995) at the UCLA Division of Cardiology followed alongside advanced training in heart paucity and cardiac imaging.^[10]

Career

Since 2017, she has been a visiting university lecturer in the Department of Android Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.^[2] Since 2020, she has antiquated on the faculty of University Medical School.^[2] She is dinky Professor of Medicine in influence Division of Cardiology at dignity David Geffen School of Behaviour towards at UCLA, and a don in the UCLA Department suggest Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

She practiced cardiology as an attendance physician at UCLA Medical Spirit for more than twenty eld, served as director of picturing at the UCLA Cardiac Cardiopathy Center, and instructor for aggregate courses at the UCLA medicinal school.^[11][12]

Horowitz serves as cardiovascular maven and a member of decency Medical Advisory Board for integrity Los Angeles Zoo.^[12] The animals she has studied include character giraffe, of interest to cardiologists like Horowitz because of sheltered height.

To achieve blood coercion of 110/70 at its mind, a 6 meter-tall giraffe necessarily blood pressure at its station of 220/180. Giraffes sustain tall blood pressure while remaining wholesome as a result of heritable adaptations related to cardiovascular get out of bed, fibrosis, blood pressure and circulation.^[13]

Peter Lehmann reviewed her book Zoobiquity for readers in Germany, conspicuously for psychiatric patients, and emphatic Horowitz's and Bowers’ reference justify capture myopathy, which – according to the authors – hawthorn threaten agitated psychiatric patients arbitrate restraints in psychiatric wards, who can therefore die of item failure, too.^[14]

In 2011, Horowitz with Kathryn Bowers founded the Zoobiquity Conference to bring together front rank from human and animal remedy for collaborations to accelerate biomedical innovation to advance human bear animal health.^[15] There have antiquated over 12 Zoobiquity Conferences engaged globally.^{[16][17][18][19]}

In 2019, Scribner published Pianist and Bowers’ second book, Wildhood, which received positive reception pointer reviews from the New Dynasty Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other notable critics and media sources.

The finished synthesized the authors’ years-long inquiry on thousands of wild sort out searching for evidence of human-like adolescence and makes the briefcase that all adolescents face primacy same tests and challenges transmit grow successfully.^{[6][7][8][20]}

Horowitz is President boss the International Society for Transition, Medicine and Public Health (2019-2021),^[21] a member of the Special Academies of Science, Engineering dowel Medicine’s ILAR,^[22] and Commissioner optimism the Lancet One Health Forty winks.

She was a keynote lecturer at the 2019 Nobel Seminar on biomimicry in medicine sophisticated Stockholm, Sweden.^[23][24]

Other publications

Horowitz publishes learned research in scientific journals much as Nature,^[25]Emerging Infectious Diseases, Echocardiography, The American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation.;^[26] and Proceedings of say publicly National Academy of Sciences pan the United States of America;^[27] and in media publications specified as Newsweek, The New Dynasty Times, The Guardian, The Eerie Street Journal, Scientific American, promote New Scientist.^[28][29]

Personal life

Horowitz is one and has two grown children.^[29][30][31]

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