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About Me

Preferred Name: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Academic/Professional Titles

  • Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology
  • Visiting Professor, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
  • Co-Director, Evolutionary Medicine Program at UCLA
  • Director, MS Biology in Evolutionary Medicine Graduate Program, UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bio

See Dr. Natterson-Horowitz's academic research page: www.bnatterson-horowitz.com

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., develops bio-inspired strategies for understanding and addressing human health challenges. Her work focuses on the natural world and evolutionary biology as sources of insight for health and development. A Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Division of Cardiology and Visiting Professor in Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, she co-directs the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine Program. 
Studying a diverse range of animals in natural settings she has uncovered evolved adaptations with relevance to heart failure, sudden cardiac death, seizures, dementia, movement disorders, infertility and psychiatric conditions including anxiety, compulsive and eating disorders. 

Her most recent research focuses on species-wide patterns in development across critical transitional periods of life including the adolescent to adult transition. 
She is actively involved with education teaching undergraduates and graduate students at UCLA and Harvard, developing courses which use evolutionary and comparative approaches to help medical students better understand physical and mental illnesses. 

Dr. Natterson-Horowitz supervises the independent research of many undergraduates and graduate students as co-director of the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine Master's degree program, as a faculty advisor on the UC-HBCU grant, and as supervising faculty advisor for Harvard undergraduate theses. 

In 2018, she first offered Coming of Age on Planet Earth, a course which uses a comparative and evolutionary frame to better understand the transition from adolescent to adult life across species. 
Dr. Natterson-Horowitz studied evolutionary biology as an undergraduate and graduate student, receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard. She attended UC San Francisco for medical school followed by post-graduate training at UCLA including internal medicine residency and chief residency, and cardiology fellowship with advanced training in heart failure and cardiac imaging. She has been a member of the UCLA Division of Cardiology since 1993 and served as Director of Imaging for the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Group. 
In 2012, she published the NY Times bestselling book, Zoobiquity, which makes the case for a species-spanning approach to health. Zoobiquity was a Finalist in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)'s Excellence in Science Books Award, Smithsonian Top Book of 2012, Discover Magazine Best Book of 2012, and the China Times Best Book of 2012. It has been translated into seven languages and has been the common read at universities across the country. 

In September 2019, Dr. Natterson-Horowitz will keynote the Nobel Assembly's Nobel Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The theme of the 2019 conference be the identification and application of scientific insights from the natural world to human health. In the same month, her new book, Wildhood, a comparative and phylogenetic exploration of the developmental transition from puberty to mature adulthood, will be published. 

Dr. Natterson-Horowitz is President-Elect of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 

Links
uclahealth.org/heart
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evmed.ucla.edu
Fellowship
Cardiology, UCLA School of Medicine, 1992-1995
Residency
Internal Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 1990-1992
Residency 2
Psychiatry, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 1988-1990
Internship
Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 1987-1988
Degree
UC San Francisco School of Medicine, MD, 1987
Interests
  • Atherosclerosis

    Atherosclerosis

    Atherosclerosis is a type of thickening or hardening of the arteries caused by a buildup of plaque in the inner lining of an artery. It can increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, and other circulatory conditions.
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  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Cardiomyopathy

    Cardiomyopathy

    Any disorder that affects the heart muscle is called a cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy causes the heart to lose its ability to pump blood well. In some cases, the heart rhythm also becomes disturbed. This leads to arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats).
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  • Cholesterol

    Cholesterol in the Blood

    The cholesterol in your blood comes from the foods you eat and your liver. Your liver makes all of the cholesterol your body needs. It helps your body make cell membranes, many hormones, and vitamin D. 
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  • Congenital Adult
  • Coronary Artery Disease

    Coronary Heart Disease

    A person with coronary heart disease has an accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries. These deposits narrow the arteries and can decrease or block the flow of blood to the heart.
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  • General Cardiology

    Home Page - Cardiovascular Diseases

    Cardiovascular diseases include coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and rheumatic heart disease.
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  • Heart
  • Heart Valve Disease
  • Hypertension

    High Blood Pressure/Hypertension

    Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. The force is created with each heartbeat as blood is pumped from the heart into the blood vessels. Blood pressure is also affected by the size of the artery walls and how elastic they are. Each time the heart beats (contracts and relaxes), pressure is created inside the arteries. High blood pressure, or hypertension, increases the risk for coronary heart disease (heart attack) and stroke (brain attack).
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  • Ischemia (Heart)
  • Syncope

    A Serious Look at Fainting

    Fainting (syncope) is a brief loss of consciousness. This leads to falling down or needing to lie down, followed by a quick recovery. Fainting by itself is not a problem, but it could be a sign of a serious health condition.
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  • Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
Research Interests
  • Cardiac Imaging
  • Intersection Between Human and Veterinary Medicine
  • Interventional Echocardiography
  • Transesophageal Echocardiography
  • Stress and Heart Disease
  • Depression and Myocardial Infarction
  • Emotional Stress and Sudden Death

Technical Research Interest:

I develop interdisciplinary programs that bring together the fields of veterinary medicine, human medicine, evolutionary and wildlife biology to explore the potential for a species-spanning approach to health. The potential for comparative clinical medicine and evolutionary medicine to yield new approaches and novel hypotheses for important health challenges is only now emerging. Some of the initiatives I have developed to expand the interface between these related but too often disconnected fields have included:

  • Conferences bringing physicians and veterinarians together to discuss the shared diseases of different species
  • Medical school course on comparative clinical medicine
  • Novel research initiative pairing UCLA medical students with UC Davis veterinary students to explore important health concerns relevant to both humans and animals
  • Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA - “Darwin on Rounds” Project
  • Develop undergraduate, graduate and medical school curriculum in evolutionary medicine
Publications
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