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Doctor Rebecca Levinson

University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Rebecca Levinson is a geneticist and biomedical informatician. She completed her doctorate in Human Genetics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA, using electronic health records as a data source for genetic and epidemiological studies. After receiving her PhD in 2016, she transitioned to an appointment in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she was a fellow on the American Heart Association Strategic Focused Research Network project there. In 2019, she joined the Schultz group in General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics in collaboration with the Saez-Rodriguez group at University Hospital Heidelberg as part of the Informatics for Life consortium. She now acts as an independent researcher. Her work focuses on understanding comorbidities in heart failure patients through clinical data analysis and integration with genetic and genomic data sources.

A network medicine approach to study comorbidities in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Event: HFA Winter Research Meeting on Translational Heart Failure 2024

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: The various forms of HFpEF

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