Francine K. Welty

Francine Welty is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She focuses on prevention and women’s health. Research interests include the role of inflammation in atherosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity, the use of omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of inflammation and the emerging role of specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators, the downstream products of omega-3 fatty acids, in preventing atherosclerosis. She has a special interest in improving medical care for refugees and has an NIH grant to examine the impact of displacement by the war on diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Syrian refugees in Lebanon.