Dr. Hannah Valantine

Biography

Hannah Valantine received her M.B.B.S. degree from London University and completed a cardiology fellowship at Stanford. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Medicine and rose to become a full Professor in 2000, becoming the inaugural Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Leadership in 2004. In 2014, she was recruited by NIH as the inaugural Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity and is a tenured investigator in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's intramural research program, where she established a laboratory for transplantation genomics. Valantine is nationally recognized as a pioneer in her field with over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is noted for her contributions to organ transplantation and workforce diversity. She has held prominent positions, including President of the Western States Affiliation of the American Heart Association, and has received notable awards such as the NIH Director's Pathfinder Award. Her research focuses on understanding mechanisms of acute and chronic allograft failure and the role of microvascular injury in these processes, with a significant current interest in the use of gene expression profiling for monitoring cardiac transplant rejection.

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