Dr Dennis Goodman and Professor Harmony Reynolds
Women & Heart Disease: Is This Different from Men
Wednesday 22.04.2026
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Summary
Dr Dennis Goodman, Professor of Medicine, Director of Integrative Medicine, NYU leads this monthly medical series designed to encourage informed, confident engagement with one’s own healthcare. Grounded in the belief that wellness is not simply the absence of disease, but a proactive commitment to nutrition, movement and flexibility, sleep, and stress management. Each month, leading specialists will examine a specific condition, outlining its nature, current treatment approaches, and the practical steps that support prevention and long-term wellbeing.
Heart disease presents differently in women, yet these differences are often overlooked or misunderstood. In this session, Professor Harmony Reynolds explores how cardiovascular conditions affect women compared to men, including symptoms, risk factors, and conditions more commonly seen in women. She will discuss prevention strategies, when to seek medical advice, and how to recognise when symptoms may require specialist care, offering practical guidance to support informed and proactive heart health. Professor Reynolds will also discuss some of landmark clinical research which has changed the way we practice cardiology today.
Dr Dennis Goodman
Dennis Goodman MD, FACP, FACC, FCCP, ABIHM, is board certified Integrative cardiologist, Director of Integrative Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Cardiology and Preventative Medicine at NYU and Professor of Medicine at UCT, SA. He is board certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Lipidology, Critical Care, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac CT Imaging, and Integrative Medicine. He graduated Cum Laude with distinction from the University of Cape Town Medical School in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Goodman completed his Internal Medicine residency and was Chief Medical Resident at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, and completed his cardiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX. He is past Chief of Cardiology at Scripps Memorial in La Jolla, CA.
He is an international speaker and has been a visiting professor throughout South Africa, Asia, Israel and Europe.He has published many research articles in addition to many books on heart health, including Magnesium, Omega 3s and Vitamin K2. Dr Goodman teaches and conducts clinical research at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center and is also a Talk show host on Sirius Dr Radio. He is founder of Preventative Medicine Lecture series at NYU. He has consistently been named as one of New York’s and USA Top Doctors.
Professor Harmony Reynolds
Dr. Harmony Reynolds is the Joel E. and Joan L. Smilow Professor of Cardiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she directs the Center for Women’s Cardiovascular Health and the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. She is dedicated to improving the health of women through research, clinical care and education. Dr. Reynolds’ research career has been focused on mechanisms and outcomes of cardiovascular disease in women and testing of treatment strategies for ischemic heart disease in clinical trials. She is particularly well known for her work in myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) and stable ischemic heart disease with nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA).
Dr. Reynolds was the lead of the HARP (Heart Attack Research Program) study, an AHA-funded international study focused on imaging to determine underlying causes of MINOCA. She was the associate director of the CCC for the NHLBI-funded, international ISCHEMIA trial. In addition, she was principal investigator of the CIAO-ISCHEMIA study, an international, NHLBI-funded study researching the relationship between symptoms and ischemia over time in patients with INOCA. She is currently PI of the INOCA-CARE randomized trial evaluating home-based cardiac rehabilitation in INOCA patients.
Dr. Reynolds’ clinical efforts include cardiology practice with a focus on women and on MINOCA, INOCA, coronary dissection and takotsubo syndrome. She received the American College of Cardiology Bernadine Healy Leadership Award in Women’s Cardiovascular Disease in 2024.