Dr. Martha Gulati
Cardiologist
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Dr. Martha Gulati is a nationally renowned cardiologist at Houston Methodist in Houston, Texas.
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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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About
Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, MASPC, FESC, FSCCT is a recognized leader in women’s cardiovascular health and prevention. She is the immediate Past President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. She was formerly a professor of cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles and the director of prevention, the associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and held the Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine and Research.
She was formerly the inaugural Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the best-seller, “Saving Women’s Hearts”. She served as the chair of the first national chest pain guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.
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