Dr.(Prof.) Puja K. Mehta

Dr. Puja K. Mehta, MD, FACC, FAHA, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University and the Director of Women’s Translational Cardiovascular Research at the Emory Women’s Heart Center (EWHC). She is Board-certified in Cardiology and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. She attended undergraduate school at Georgia Institute of Technology and earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. She completed internal medicine residency and a four-year cardiovascular fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Mehta completed an additional year of specialized fellowship training in Women’s Heart Disease at Cedars-Sinai’s Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center. Dr. Mehta’s clinical interest are management of angina and risk factors, and heart disease prevention, focusing on behavioral approaches such as exercise, nutrition, and stress reduction. Her research is NIH-funded and focuses on microvascular dysfunction, biomarkers, and the role of mental stress in heart disease in women. She has presented her work at national cardiology meetings and has published over 130 manuscripts in journals such as the Journal of American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Circulation, and the American Journal of Physiology. In addition to clinical care and research, she enjoys teaching medical students, residents, and fellows in the Emory School of Medicine. Puja K. Mehta, MD FACC is a preventive cardiologist with specialized training in women’s heart disease. She is Director of the Non-invasive Vascular Function Research Laboratory and Co-Director of the Cardio-Oncology Program in the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Dr. Mehta trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Emory University, and then completed a specialized research fellowship in Women’s Health and Heart Disease at Cedars-Sinai. Her clinical interest is treatment of persistent chest pain, microvascular coronary dysfunction, heart disease prevention and behavioral approaches such as exercise, nutrition, and stress reduction for heart disease. Dr. Mehta's research is NIH-funded and includes the role of mental stress in heart disease, exploring the brain-heart connection and novel approaches to treating chest pain in women.

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