Nanette K. Wenger, MD, FACC, FAHA, MACP, professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, is also chief of cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital and a consultant to the Emory Heart and Vascular Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a graduate of Hunter College in New York, New York and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr Wenger completed her residency in internal medicine and a cardiology fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York as well as an additional fellowship in cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr Wenger is a past vice president of the American Heart Association, past governor for Georgia of the American College of Cardiology, past president of the Georgia Heart Association, and she has served as a member and frequent chairperson of numerous committees, scientific advisory boards, task forces, and councils of the American Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Society of Geriatric Cardiology. She is a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the Society of Geriatric Cardiology, and the American College of Chest Physicians. She is a master of the American College of Physicians. The American Heart Association awarded Dr Wenger the Distinguished Achievement Award, the Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award, and the highest award of the association, the Gold Heart Award. She received the James E Bruce Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians, for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine, and was named Physician of the Year by the American Heart Association. She is listed in Best Doctors in America.