Garima Sharma, MD, FACC, FAHA, is director of cardio-obstetrics and director of cardiovascular women’s health at Inova Health System, an Inova Schar Heart and Vascular and Inova Women’s collaborative program. Sharma is a national leader in women’s health and preventive cardiology. She is board-certified in cardiovascular disease. Sharma works with women with cardiac disease during pregnancy, and patients with cardiac risk factors in menopausal transition; treats hypertension, spontaneous coronary artery disease, and lipid abnormalities. Sharma has published extensively in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, and the Journal of the American Medical Association on women’s health. She completed her training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and subsequently was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.