Vilma Irazola MD, MSc, PhD

Vilma Irazola is a doctor who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), a specialist in Cardiology, and a master's degree in Clinical Effectiveness from that university. Currently, she serves as director of the Chronic Diseases Research Department of the IECS and of the Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Health for South America (CESCAS), which operates at the IECS and was created in 2009 from an initiative of the Institute. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). In addition, since 2023 she has been director of the Master's Degree in Clinical Effectiveness. Since 2015, she has been a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET).

She is also director of the Master's Degree in Clinical Effectiveness at the UBA Faculty of Medicine and co-director of the Outcomes Measurement, Advanced Statistics, and Biostatistics courses of the same master's degree. She also serves as a visiting professor at the Bernard Lown Program in Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard THChan School of Public Health and a visiting professor at the Mc Silver Institute for Social Research at New York University, United States. She teaches the Public Health Research course at New York University's Transcontinental Master of Public Health and is a faculty member at the School of Implementation Sciences leading the Global Alliance Against Chronic Diseases (GACD).