Dr. Dastmalchi is a cardiologist at Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute, specializing in nutrition, cardiometabolic health and women's cardiovascular health. As part of the Women's Cardiovascular Program, she leads the Menopause program through Inova Health Systems.

Dr. Dastmalchi is passionate about women's cardiometabolic health, she has led an expert analysis emphasizing the importance of increasing clinical training in the menopausal life stage to help improve cardiovascular outcomes. Her dedication to nutrition across health care institutions and improving inpatient hospital menus has made her a leader in the nutrition space. She now co-directs a clinical elective for University of Virginia medical students in nutrition to help teach the next generation of physicians how to tailor nutrition in their clinical practice.

Her interest in cardiometabolic health has led her to win scholarship awards with the Cardiometabolic Health Congress and as a finalist for the American College of Cardiology Shark Tank Women's Health Research competition. Dr. Dastmalchi hopes to integrate her interests to improve cardiovascular outcomes in women through pivotal stages in their life.

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, MASPC, FESC, FSCCT(hon) is the Immediate Past President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. She is a professor of cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles and is the director of prevention, the associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and holds the Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Medicine and Research. She was formerly the inaugural Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the best-seller, "Saving Women's Hearts".

She served as the chair of the national chest pain guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, and as editor-in-chief of CardioSmart, the patient education arm of the American College of Cardiology.

Her exceptional commitment to the study of women and cardiac diseases has won her numerous awards and distinctions, including being named by Crain's Chicago Business as one of Chicago's Top 40 under 40, the first CREDO Award from the ACC (2011), the National Red Dress Award (2012), the 2019 ACC Bernadine Healy Award, and the 2023 Arthur Agatston Award in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT).