Dr. Jenna Skowronski
Cardiologist
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Dr. Jenna Skowronski is a cardiologist at UNC Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Episode # 459 • 23 Jul 2026
The Continuum of Prevention and Heart Failure
with Dr. Anu Lala, Dr. Martha Gulati, Dr. Apoorva Gangavelli, Dr. Jenna Skowronski, Dr. Hannah Every
CardioNerds discuss the continuum of prevention and heart failure with Drs. Anu Lala and Martha Gulati. Grounded in a clinical case of a 55-year-old woman with uncontrolled hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and obesity who is on the trajectory toward heart failure, this episode unpacks a paradigm-shifting framework from a joint HFSA/ASPC Scientific Statement. The discussion explores how prevention should not be siloed from heart failure management but rather integrated across a patient’s lifespan—from primary prevention in at-risk individuals, to secondary prevention in those with established heart failure, to tertiary prevention in patients with advanced therapies such as LVADs and heart transplantation. The experts highlight the importance of aggressive risk factor management, biomarker-guided screening, the AHA’s Life’s Essential 8, and the need for multidisciplinary collaboration and systems-level change to shift heart failure care from reactive to proactive.
Audio editing for this episode was performed by CardioNerds Intern, Dr. Julia Marques Fernandes.
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Dr. Skowronski is a cardiologist with clinical and research interests in both advanced heart failure & transplant cardiology and women’s cardiovascular disease. She is trained in heart failure and advanced therapies such as cardiac transplantation and LVAD and values the longterm relationship that this field allows her to build with her patients. She also enjoys the intersection of heart failure with both cardio-obstetrics and adult congenital heart disease.
Dr. Skowronski is the Director of Cardio-Obstetrics at UNC Chapel Hill and passionate about providing exceptional patient-centered cardiovascular care to women throughout the lifespan. She has particular expertise in cardio-obstetrics and contraception in cardiovascular disease, focused on the care of women with or at high risk for cardiovascular disease before, during, and after pregnancy.
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