Dr. Garovic is Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She serves as Chair of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and as Dean for Clinical and Translational Science. She has been NIH-funded over the last 15 years and has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Garovic is a Mayo Clinician Investigator, which is one of the highest honors that Mayo can bestow on an investigator. Her clinical and research interests in hypertension, in general, and hypertensive pregnancy disorders, in particular, span several research areas: diagnosis and treatment, underlying molecular mechanisms, with a recent focus on senescence, epigenetics, and epidemiology of cardiovascular and renal complications. She is a chartered member of the Pregnancy and Neonatology NIH Study Section (2020-2024) and has been elected for a second term as a member of the AHA Hypertension and Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease Subcommittee. She led the AHA effort to identify a framework of best practices in basic and clinical research to interrogate the renin-angiotensin system in COVID-19 using appropriate methodology (Hypertension, 2020). She was appointed by the AHA as the chair of the writing group of the scientific statement on “Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis, blood pressure goals, and pharmacotherapy” (Hypertension, 2022), with participation of 6 AHA Councils. This scientific statement provided a critical review of the current state of care of these patients and set the stage for optimization of treatment of hypertension in pregnancy. She has been extensively involved in a spectrum of intramural and extramural educational and leadership roles including being a member of Mayo’s Research Personnel Committee (equivalent of tenure committee); chair of the Mississippi Center for Excellence in Perinatal Research External Advisory Committee; and finally, she served as the co-chair of the 2021 American Physiological Society (APS) conference, New Trends in Sex and Gender Medicine (October 19-22, 2021).
Dr. Garovic is committed to training a new generation of clinician investigators and I serve as Principal Investigator for the Mayo Clinic StARR Program funded by NHLBI. The overall objective of this program is to provide in-depth research training to medical residents of diverse backgrounds and to prepare them for independent academic careers in heart (and vascular), lung, hematologic (blood), and sleep disorders/diseases.