C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2018. Dr. Bairey Merz has been the Medical Director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Center at the Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California since 1991. She also has been the Medical Director and Endowed Chair of the Barbra Streisand Women s Heart Center at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars- Sinai since 2001, and a Professor of Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Bairey Merz is a member of the Association of American Physicians and the Association of University Cardiologists, where she served as President from 2015 to 2016. From 2005 to 2009, she served on the Scientific Advisory Board of CV Therapeutics, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company. She also has extensive experience on non-profit boards, councils and guideline panels, including the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Since 2016, Dr. Bairey Merz has served on multiple editorial boards, including for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, and European Heart Journal. Dr. Bairey Merz holds a B.A. (Honors) in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and a M.D. (Honors) from Harvard Medical School. She completed her training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. We believe that Dr. Bairey Merz is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors because of her extensive medical training and her leadership experience with for-profit and non-profit organizations.