Jennifer Lewey, MD, MPH

Dr. Lewey is a cardiologist, the Director of the Penn Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and the Co-Director of the Pregnancy and Heart Disease Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and her adult cardiology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. She also has an MPH in clinical effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research program focuses on two major areas broadly related to maternal cardiovascular health: improving outcomes and reducing racial disparities among pregnant and postpartum individuals with cardiac disease, as well as reducing the burden of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in individuals with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Dr. Lewey’s research spans health services and clinical research methodology, and she has experience in behavioral and pragmatic clinical trials and qualitative and mixed methods research.