Catherine Mary Otto[1] is an echocardiography specialist who serves as J.
Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology at the University of Washington Medical Center.
Otto is an expert on calcific (aortic stenosis) and received the 2011 American College of Cardiology Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical Domain) for her research on this subject.
In January, 2014, she was appointed editor-in-chief of Heart, the official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society.
[5] On 29 March 1979, Otto married Robert Frederick Leach in King County, Washington.