Lauren A. Eberly, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a staff cardiologist for the Indian Health Service at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Navajo Nation. She is also a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and co-founder of the Penn Cardiovascular Center for Health Equity and Justice.
Dr. Eberly earned her MD from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 2015, and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2019. She completed the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and her fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Eberly’s research and clinical work focus on advancing equity through implementation science and pragmatic clinical trials, with a particular focus on Indigenous cardiovascular health. Her research is supported by grants from the NIH (NHLBI) and the American Heart Association. She has led many landmark studies demonstrating inequities in utilization of recommended cardiovascular therapies, as well as determining evidence-based strategies to advance cardiovascular health equity for patients receiving care through the Indian Health Service.
Employing community-based participatory methods, her research has increasingly focused on implementation and evaluation of Indigenous food is medicine programs to address cardiovascular health disparities among Native populations. She is particularly interested in how food is medicine programs can reclaim traditional foods to advance health while advancing food sovereignty and empowering tribal communities. She serves as PI on MUTTON-HF (Medically Utilized Tailored Traditional food to Optimize Nutrition in Heart Failure), a locally sourced Indigenous medically and culturally tailored meal program incorporating traditional Diné (Navajo) foods and recipes.
