Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
NANCY K SWEITZER
Contact Information
600 HIGHLAND AVE
MADISON, WI 53792
Mail Code: 5710
Biography
Director, Heart Failure
Nancy Sweitzer attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin, where she received both a medical degree and a doctorate in Physiology in 1993. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She completed fellowships in cardiology, heart failure and cardiac transplantation, and then remained at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital as an Instructor in Medicine from 1999-2001. She joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Medicine Division in 2001 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, and was appointed director of the Heart Failure Program.
Sweitzer is a clinician-scientist whose research focuses on the physiology of heart failure with preserved systolic function, with a particular focus on the role of vascular stiffening in impairing ventricular relaxation and cardiac performance. She is also interested in abnormalities of the cardiovascular system associated with aging, non-invasive assessment of age-related pathology, and targeted interventions aimed at slowing the vascular stiffening seen in age, hypertension, diabetes and obesity, in an effort to prevent heart failure. In addition, as Director of the Heart Failure Program she is involved in several multicenter trials of therapy or interventions in heart failure. Sweitzer is involved in medical student and graduate level teaching. In 2001, she won a Harvard Medical School teaching award for Best Lecturer in Integrated Human Physiology.
Search for Nancy Sweitzer's literature abstracts on PubMed
Sweitzer NK, Frishman WH, Stevenson LW. Drug therapy of heart failure cased by systolic dysfunction in the elderly. 2000. Clin Geriatr Med 16:513-34.
Sweitzer NK, Stevenson LW. Diastolic heart failure: miles to go before we sleep. 2000. Am J Med 109:683-5.
Dries DL, Sweitzer NK, Drazner M, Stevenson LW, Gersh B. Prognostic impact of diabetes mellitus in heart failure according to the etiology of left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 2001. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 32:421-8.
Ho CY, Sweitzer NK, McDonough B, Maron BJ, Casey SA, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Solomon SD. Assessment of diastolic function with Doppler tissue imaging to predict genotype in preclinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2002 Jun 25;105(25):2992-7.
