Prof Elaine Urbina 

Prof Elaine Urbina is a Professor of Paediatrics (Cardiology) and the Director of Preventive Cardiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre.  She began her Paediatric residency at University of San Francisco and then completed her Paediatric Cardiology fellowship at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. where she began her research career with the Bogalusa Heart Study (BHS) under the leadership of Dr. Gerald Berenson.  She went on to join the staff of Tulane and led the non-invasive CV imaging studies for the BHS for over a decade.   

Currently, Elaine’s clinical activities and industry sponsored grants focus on prevention (obesity, hypertension and dyslipidaemias) while her research grants (AHA, NIH) and masters in epidemiology training concentrate on new non-invasive methods of assessing atherosclerotic CV target organ damage in youth related to CV risk factors especially those that cluster with obesity. She continues to pursue her own research and also provides cardiac and vascular training and/or core services to a variety of multi-centre NIH-funded paediatric studies including CKiDs (chronic kidney disease), TODAY2 (type 2 diabetes), SEARCH 3 (type 1 diabetes), Udenefil & FUEL (single ventricle), and DoIT (dyslipidaemia). Elaine is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and immediate past chair of the Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Obesity in Youth committee of the CV Disease in the Young council of AHA.  She is also a member of the AHA research committee.