The webinar lecture series seeks to promote Heart University ACHD virtual modules among Cardiovascular Disease and Pediatric Cardiology Fellows in Training (FIT), to increase interest among general and pediatric cardiology fellows in ACHD through a scholarship program that sponsors participation in an ACHD rotation at a top ACGME-accredited fellowship program, and to increase the number of ACHD applicants in the future years.

The research project seeks to determine if Black and Hispanic adults with coarctation of the aorta presenting for transcatheter coarctation procedures are more likely to have a more severe and late unrepaired presentation and experience higher rate of adverse outcomes compared with non-Hispanic whites.

Dr. Renee Bullock-Palmer is a board-certified Cardiologist who specializes in cardiac imaging and has a passion for cardiovascular health in women. She is the Director of Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging and the Director of the Women’s Heart Center at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey. Dr. Bullock-Palmer currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and is a member of the South/Central New Jersey Board of the American Heart Association. She is the Chair of ASNC’s Social Media Task Force committee and the Vice-Chair of the Women in Cardiology committee of the national AHA. 

In addition to practicing medicine in New Jersey for over 10 years, Dr. Bullock-Palmer has led several outreach activities focusing on cardiac imaging and heart health in women, including CME activities at Deborah Heart and Lung Center and throughout the region.  She serves on committees in several professional societies including the AHA and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). In 2011 and 2019, she was awarded the Teacher of the Year award at Deborah Heart and Lung Center. She has also been listed as one of Castle Connelly’s Top Doctors in New Jersey and Philadelphia from 2014 through to 2020. 

Dr. Bullock-Palmer’s special interests include women’s heart disease, cardiac amyloidosis and cardiac imaging. She has participated in many clinical research projects and authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.