Dr. Emily Lau

Emily Lau, MD, MPH, is a cardiologist and clinical investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She directs the Cardiometabolic Health & Hormones Clinic and the Menopause component of the Hormones & Cardiovascular Disease Clinic at MGH and has led women’s heart health initiatives. Clinically, she practices general cardiology and echocardiography with a focus on women’s cardiovascular health. Her research program applies multi-omics, imaging, exercise physiology, and data science to large cohorts, electronic health records, and patient-oriented studies to understand how biologic sex differences and female-specific risk factors influence cardiovascular disease. Dr. Lau trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she served as Chief Medical Resident, and completed Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Echocardiography fellowships at MGH. She received her MD from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work has been supported by the NIH/NHLBI and the American Heart Association.