Researcher Highlight Q&A: Coleen McNamara, MD, Immunology & Cardiovascular Disease

As the director of UVA Health's Beirne B Carter Center for Immunology Research, Coleen McNamara, MD, is a physician scientist whose work focuses on the role the immune system plays in heart and vascular disease.

The goal of her research is to aid in the discovery of immunotherapy that can prevent heart attacks and strokes. Most recently, her research uncovered the role of transcription factor Id3 as a major regulator of atherosclerosis and obesity.

McNamara is also a professor of cardiovascular medicine at the UVA School of Medicine. See McNamara's research interests and selected publications.

See McNamara discuss her work and her answers to our Researcher Highlight questions, below: