[MUSIC PLAYING] Hi, I'm Kathleen Drinan. I'm a clinical cardiologist with the University of Chicago. I've been practicing cardiology since 1990. My interest in medicine really started when I was in college. I initially went to the College of Pharmacy in Michigan. I thought I was going to be a pharmacist. I loved science. I loved chemistry and pharmacology, physiology, and was very, very interested in pursuing that. But towards the end of my education in pharmacy, I realized that it was the clinical application of the science that I really loved and loved working with the patients and realizing the differences I could make in their outcomes by applying science, pharmacology, and physiologic principles. My goal in my practice is really to take care of patients that have had cardiovascular disease, but more importantly to take care of those patients that want to prevent the development of cardiovascular disease. So I spend a lot of time with patients who have never, ever realized that they had cardiovascular disease, but are there because they know they have significant risk and want to prevent it. My approach in cardiology is prevention, is the identification first of patients who have cardiovascular disease and the appropriate treatment. But then from there, it's secondary prevention to prevent it from getting worse or redeveloping. And then more importantly, reaching out to those patients who have not yet had cardiovascular disease, but in whom we know, because of attendant risks, we could prevent cardiovascular disease. By the time I started practicing cardiology, it was at that time that we began to recognize that women were not doing well with cardiovascular diseases. Simple examples would be a woman who was hospitalized with a heart attack. Her chances of surviving that heart attack were less than a man's. And her complication rates with procedures were higher. And the presentation of her heart disease usually came at a later time in her life, so it was fraught with additional risks. Since that time, with the identification of this difference for women, and decades of research, and continued vigilance and advocacy by lots of groups, we've been able to really advance care for women who have heart disease, to prevent heart disease, as well as to more adequately treat it. [MUSIC PLAYING]