Dra. Malissa Wood

• She is a recipient of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Heart of Our Mission Award and Women’s Health Award for her clinical and research efforts dedicated to reducing heart disease in women.

• Co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center.

• Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.

• She is a clinical cardiologist at the Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

• Principal investigator of the Happy Heart Trial, a primary prevention study in low-income women designed to improve the cardiovascular health of high-risk women.

• Co-Principal Investigator in studies of microvascular ischemia and clinical and genetic characteristics of individuals with spontaneous coronary artery dissection.

• Her clinical research in the world of sports includes work with the United States Olympic Committee, Harvard University athletes and marathon runners.

• She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Echocardiography.

• Past President of the Boston Board of the American Heart Association.