Elizabeth M. McNally

Heart Failure & Transplant

Northwestern University

About

Elizabeth M. McNally works in Heart Failure & Transplant affiliated with Northwestern University.

Elizabeth M. McNally is the Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a practice focus on cardiovascular genetics. Her research centers on the genetics of cardiovascular and neuromuscular disorders, including mechanisms of muscle degeneration and repair.

Research focus

Genetic CardiomyopathiesDilated CardiomyopathyArrhythmogenic CardiomyopathyMuscular Dystrophy-Associated Cardiac DisordersGenomic Modifiers in Cardiovascular Disease

Impact

555 pubs · 23,993 cites · h-index 85

Training

B.A.
Barnard College (Columbia University)
1983
MD, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1990

Affiliations

Work Experience

Director, Center for Genetic Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine · 2014 - Present

Associate Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics

University of Chicago · 2003 - 2014

Assistant Professor

University of Chicago · 1996 - 2003

Fellow in Cardiology

Brigham and Women's Hospital · 1992 - 1995

Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetics

Boston Children's Hospital