Stacey Rosen, MD, joins Sandra Lindsay on this 20-Minute Health Talk to discuss why heart disease disproportionately impacts Black women, what factors contribute to their risk and what health systems like Northwell are doing to change the statistics.Meet the expertStacey Rosen is the senior vice president of Katz Institute for Women's Health at Northwell Health; partners council professor of women's health at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association.Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MBA, MSN, RN, is Northwell’s ambassador to raise health locally, nationally and globally. She leads the health system in expanding knowledge of issues that affect community health, public policy and other aspects of health care. She spent spent 29 years in nursing, most recently serving as director of critical care nursing at a Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. On December 14, 2020, Sandra volunteered to become the first American vaccinated with the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.Podcast transcriptChapters