Nanette Kass Wenger (born September 3, 1930) is an American clinical cardiologist and professor emerita at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
[4] She received her doctor of medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1954 as one of their first female graduates,[5] and began her postgraduate work at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she became the first woman to be chief resident in the cardiology department.
[5] After her residency, she moved to Emory University, where she started as an instructor and eventually was named full professor of medicine in 1971.
[4] Wenger has been a leader in the cardiology field as she has authored and co-authored more than 1,300 scientific and review articles and book chapters.
[6] She has devoted the rest of her career to understand how heart disease, specifically coronary artery disease, affects women as well as advocating for the need to disaggregate study results and report gender-specific analyses from clinical trials.