Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Dr Lisa de las Fuentes (Participant)

Dr. de las Fuentes is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, with a joint appointment in the Division of Biostatistics at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also the Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging and Clinical Research Core Laboratory (CIRCL) at Washington University, with expertise in a variety of imaging modalities and clinical assessments used to characterize cardiovascular and cardiometabolic traits. Her clinical and research interests include the metabolic, inflammatory, genetic, and environmental modulators of hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, heart failure, and cardiovascular risk traits. She is also interested in identifying the barriers to optimal cardiovascular health on a global scale. Dr. de las Fuentes has a 15-year history of collaborative clinical and translational research working with talented multi-disciplinary teams of investigators studying a wide-range of factors that contribute to hypertension and cardiovascular disease traits, including environmental, metabolic, nutritional, lifestyle, and genetic/genomic/pharmacogenomic factors. Dr. de las Fuentes is a co-investigator on the Heart, Lung, and Blood Co-morbiditieS Implementation Models in People Living with HIV (HLB-SIMPLe) Alliance Research Coordinating Center (RCC). This Alliance is investigating implementation strategies for improving hypertension diagnosis, management and control among people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.