KAROL WATSON

CARDIOLOGY Director of the UCLA Women’s Cardiovascular Health Center and the UCLA-Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Health Program UCLA Health

Dr. Karol Watson is a nationally recognized leader in women’s heart health. She is an attending cardiologist and a professor of medicine/cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also a principal investigator for several large National Institutes of Health research studies, including the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. In September 2022, it was announced that Dr. Watson, along with her colleague Dr. Pei Pei Ping, will lead the Skills & Workforce Development Core of the UCLA Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge 2AI) Program.