Margo B. Minissian PhD, ACNP, CLS, AACC, FAHA

Margo B. Minissian, PhD, ACNP, is a nurse scientist, cardiology nurse practitioner and clinical lipid specialist at the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. The center is designed to help women reduce their chances of heart disease through a preventive approach, including state-of-the-art screening and diagnostic testing.

Her primary research interests focus on cardiovascular prevention. Minissian is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, to complete heart health screenings in ethnic minority women. She has partnered with local nursing organizations to complete this study, which takes place in minority communities in Los Angeles.

Her second NIH-funded study was her doctoral project, "Is Spontaneous Preterm Delivery Associated with Clustering of Maternal Cardiovascular Risk MarkErs and Impaired Vascular Function? The SPACE Study." Minissian was also awarded the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate Summer 2014 pre-doctoral fellowship, the American Nurses Foundation nurse scholar fellowship and was the UCLA dean's scholar fellow and a UCLA regents scholar. Minissian is a published, principal investigator and co-investigator at Cedars-Sinai with multiple peer-reviewed publications.