Dr. Wendy Post is associate professor of medicine in the department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the division of cardiology. In addition, Dr. Post is a cardiologist at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease and the Echocardiography Laboratory.
Her research interests focus on the vascular effects of aging, noninvasive imaging of subclinical cardiovascular disease, genetic epidemiology, and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. She received funding through the prestigious Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award to study vascular phenotypic and genetic predictors of longevity and is the principal investigator for the Hopkins site for the NIH funded Multi-Ethnic study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
After earning her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, Dr. Post completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Post continued her education by pursuing a master’s degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a fellowship in cardiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
