Nosheen Reza, MD, MS, is an advanced heart failure and genetic cardiologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. As an Assistant Professor of Medicine, she cares for patients in the Penn Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease and in the Section of Heart Failure, Transplantation, and Mechanical Support. Her research is focused on improving the care of individuals with genetic cardiomyopathies and heart failure, with growing emphasis on the real-world implementation, financing, and equitable delivery of novel cardiovascular therapies. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Reza completed her internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and her Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology fellowships at Penn, where she also obtained her Master’s of Science in Translational Research. She serves as an Associate Program Director for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and is the Founding Director of the nationally recognized Penn Women in Cardiology program. Reza has been recognized with Penn’s inaugural Department of Medicine Resident Mentoring Award, the inaugural FOCUS Early Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine, and the 2024 Women As One and Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Research Scholars Program Escalator Award. She is a national leader in the American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, American Heart Association, and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Society, and is the inaugural Deputy Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Failure–Intersections.