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 Rae-Ellen Kavey, M.D., joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 2005. She is a Senior Medical Officer, Pediatric Cardiovascular Risk Reduction and Science Application in the Institute's Center for the Application of Research Discoveries. She is currently coordinating development of a new integrated cardiovascular risk reduction program for children, to be implemented in the offices of primary pediatric care providers.
Dr. Kavey earned a B.Sc. degree, cum laude, at McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1968. She earned a medical degree, cum laude, at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 1972. Dr. Kavey subsequently earned an M.P.H. in 1997 at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York.
Dr. Kavey's primary research interests are in atherosclerotic heart disease beginning in childhood and evaluation and treatment of problems after surgical repair of congenital heart defects. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Subsequently, Dr. Kavey completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Montreal Children's Hospital-McGill University followed by a research fellowship in that field at Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center in New York City.
In 1977, Dr. Kavey joined the pediatric faculty at SUNY Upstate medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y. and rose through the ranks there to become Professor of Pediatrics in 1994. While at Upstate, she was a recipient of a Preventive Cardiology Academic Award from the National Institutes of Health and subsequently became a Professor of Preventive Medicine. In 2000 she became Chief of Cardiology and Lynn Getz Endowed Professor of Pediatrics at Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University in Chicago, IL.
The author or coauthor of six books and 56 articles that have appeared in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Kavey has presented abstracts of her studies at 59 national medical meetings in the United States and Canada. She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, an Inaugural Fellow of the American Heart Association, and past Chair of the Council for Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the American Heart Association. In 2005 she was elected President of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society.
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