UNMC’s Rebekah Gundry, PhD, has been nominated by the American Heart Association as a 2025 American Heart Association Leader of Impact for the Omaha area.
Dr. Gundry is the director of the UNMC Center for Heart and Vascular Research, the Stokes-Shackelford Professor and chair of the UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology.
She is principal investigator of a $11.8 million National Institutes of Health award to create a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on finding answers for heart and vascular diseases.
The Leaders of Impact campaign shines a spotlight on heart health, with heart disease ranking as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide and stroke as the second-leading cause. Local American Heart Association chapters are running a seven-week campaign, which started Sept. 18, to raise funds to support research and advocate for heart health.
At the end of the campaign, which concludes Nov. 5, one nominee will be named the local Leaders of Impact winner.
For more on the campaign, as well as opportunities to support Dr. Gundy’s fund-raising efforts, visit the American Heart Association’s website at this link.