Posts by Nandita S. Scott, MD
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Women's Heart Health Program Aims to Reduce Disparities
A pioneering Massachusetts General Hospital clinical care, research, and education program aims to improve outcomes from cardiovascular disease in women.
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Women's Heart Health and Effects on Pregnancy
The Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program was launched 13 years ago to raise awareness and expand on research regarding women-specific cardiovascular conditions. In this video, Nandita Scott, MD, co-director of the program, discusses its expansion and the innovative work accomplished over the past decade.
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Review: Delivering Coordinated Cardio-Obstetrics Care
Anna C. O'Kelly, MD, MPhil, of the Department of Medicine, Nandita Scott and Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD, of the Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program, and a colleague discuss the importance of coordinated cardio-obstetrics care for optimizing both maternal and fetal health.
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Case Report: A Pregnant Woman with Left Ventricular Noncompaction-associated Cardiomyopathy
Women with dilated cardiomyopathies require careful preconception counseling and peripartum care because of the risk of complications, which include irreversible left ventricular dysfunction.
Biography
Dr. Scott is a graduate of the University of Ottawa Medical School in Ontario, Canada. She held the positions of Chief Internal Medicine and Chief Cardiology Resident. She subsequently completed a fellowship in Echocardiography at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She worked on Cape Cod for several years and became involved with the American Heart Association to help found the first Go Red For Women Luncheon there. As a result she was awarded the American Heart Association Physician of the Year Award in 2005.
She joined the Cardiology Division at Mass General in 2007 and is currently the Co-Director for the Corrigan Womans Heart Health Program.
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
At Mass General, our world-class physicians and nurses specialize in specific forms of both heart and vascular disease, and work closely together to offer leading treatments and preventive care for cardiovascular conditions.