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Giselle Melendez, MD. From an expert, on what is research and how to get involved in it!    Giselle Meléndez, MD, is assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, section on cardiovascular medicine with a cross-appointment in the department of pathology, section on comparative medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine.    Her research foci are the cardiovascular side effects induced by chemotherapy treatments with specific interest in myocardial fibrosis and its role in the pathogenesis of heart failure.    Her partnerships focus on cardio-oncology and improved interventions for breast cancer and lymphoma through nonhuman primate models and clinical trials of chemotherapy-induced heart failure.   Meléndez completed medical school in Venezuela and worked as a general primary care practitioner in the country for several years. In 2006, she moved to the United States to pursue a career in science. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in cell biology and anatomy from the University of South Carolina, focusing her research on heart failure and extracellular remodeling and completed additional postdoctoral training in preclinical models of cardiovascular disease in non-human primates with the department of pathology at Wake Forest School of Medicine. In 2015, she joined Wake Forest School of Medicine’s department of cardiology to conduct basic and population cardiovascular research.   and she can be reached at:   Wake Forest School of Medicine  Medical Center Boulevard  \  Winston-Salem, NC 27157 p 336.713.7086 \  f 336.716.1515 \  lab 336.713.70.84 gmelende@wakehealth.edu  \  WakeHealth.edu  

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