Nancy Sweitzer

Dr. Sweitzer is director of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, professor of medicine and chief of the division of cardiology in the UA College of Medicine-Tucson. She is a board-certified advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and clinical researcher who is nationally recognized for her leadership and experience in clinical trials. She has done extensive work on the physiology of heart failure with preserved systolic function, a disease that disproportionately affects elderly women. She has led and collaborated on numerous studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, and by industry and academic sponsors. She serves as a member of the Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Science Study Section and the American Heart Association’s Cardiac Biology and Regulation Committee. Dr. Sweitzer earned her doctorate in physiology her medical degree from the UW-Madison.