Faculty

Brittany Weber

MD, PhD
Director, Cardio-Dermatology and Cardio-Rheumatology Program
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Weber is the Director of the Cardio-Dermatology and Cardio-Rheumatology Program, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with an MD-PhD in Immunology. She received internal medicine training, including serving as a chief medical resident, and cardiovascular training, including an advanced cardiovascular imaging research fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include cardiovascular risk stratification and prevention with patients with systemic inflammatory disorders. Her research leverages advanced cardiovascular imaging (stress/PET and coronary CT), biomarkers, and immunology to investigate the relationships between systemic inflammation and CVD, with a focus on the coronary microcirculation and novel metrics of atherosclerotic plaque imaging. Her multi-disciplinary clinical and research program includes close collaborations between cardiology, rheumatology, and dermatology. As a testament to her success in this short time frame, she is the recipient of the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award.

2027 Sessions

Cardiac Imaging for Dermatologists: When Inflammation, Skin, and the Heart Intersect

Skin findings can sometimes signal deeper systemic inflammation, including cardiovascular involvement. This session introduces cardiac imaging concepts relevant to dermatologists caring for patients with autoimmune, inflammatory, or infiltrative disease. Topics include when echocardiography, cardiac MRI, CT, PET imaging, or other modalities may be useful, along with clinical clues that should prompt collaboration with cardiology.

Presenter

Thursday, February 18 2:35–2:50 PM
Faculty

Brittany Weber

MD, PhD
Director, Cardio-Dermatology and Cardio-Rheumatology Program
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Weber is the Director of the Cardio-Dermatology and Cardio-Rheumatology Program, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with an MD-PhD in Immunology. She received internal medicine training, including serving as a chief medical resident, and cardiovascular training, including an advanced cardiovascular imaging research fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include cardiovascular risk stratification and prevention with patients with systemic inflammatory disorders. Her research leverages advanced cardiovascular imaging (stress/PET and coronary CT), biomarkers, and immunology to investigate the relationships between systemic inflammation and CVD, with a focus on the coronary microcirculation and novel metrics of atherosclerotic plaque imaging. Her multi-disciplinary clinical and research program includes close collaborations between cardiology, rheumatology, and dermatology. As a testament to her success in this short time frame, she is the recipient of the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award.

Panel Q&A

Panelist

Thursday, February 18 4:35–4:45 PM
Faculty

Katherine Economy

MD
Division Chief Mass General Brigham
Co-Director Program for Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Program Director Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mass General Brigham

Katherine Economy
MD
Division Chief Mass General Brigham
Co-Director Program for Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Program Director Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Mass General Brigham

Katherine Economy, MD is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She is the Division Chief for Maternal Fetal Medicine at Mass General Brigham and Co-Directs the Program for Heart Disease in Pregnancy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist, Kathy is especially drawn to clinical challenges at the interface of obstetrics and internal medicine, with a focus on cardiovascular disease in pregnancy. Through the development of multidisciplinary clinical programs, educating fellows, and serving in national service roles, she has worked to enhance both individual patient care and broader clinical standards in her field. Kathy is especially passionate about mentoring and teaching the next generation of clinicians. Outside of work, Kathy enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.

Faculty

Heather Goff

MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Heather Goff is a Professor of Dermatololgy at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas where she directs a clinic in the treatment of cutaneous lymphomas. She is a course director for dermatology at UT Southwestern medical school and was a founding member of the Basic Dermatology Curriculum Workgroup at the American Academy of Dermatology. She utilizes her background in fine art to collaborate with local art museums in a medical school elective entitled the Art of Observation.

Faculty

Elizabeth (Lisa) Swanson

MD
Dermatologist and Pediatric Dermatologist
Ada West Dermatology and St Luke's Children's Hospital

Dr. Swanson is a board-certified dermatologist and pediatric dermatologist. She obtained her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She performed her dermatology residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After that, she completed a fellowship in Pediatric Dermatology at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona. She was in private practice in Colorado from 2011 thru 2020. She moved to Boise, Idaho in summer 2020 to become the first and only pediatric dermatologist in the state of Idaho.

She is active in local and national medical societies and organizations. She loves lecturing at conferences discussing pediatric dermatology with audiences across the country. Since moving to Idaho, she works in private practice at Ada West Dermatology and she is on staff at St Luke’s Children’s Hospital where she sees hospital consults and performs procedures.

Faculty

Brittany Weber

MD, PhD
Director, Cardio-Dermatology and Cardio-Rheumatology Program
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Weber is the Director of the Cardio-Dermatology and Cardio-Rheumatology Program, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with an MD-PhD in Immunology. She received internal medicine training, including serving as a chief medical resident, and cardiovascular training, including an advanced cardiovascular imaging research fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include cardiovascular risk stratification and prevention with patients with systemic inflammatory disorders. Her research leverages advanced cardiovascular imaging (stress/PET and coronary CT), biomarkers, and immunology to investigate the relationships between systemic inflammation and CVD, with a focus on the coronary microcirculation and novel metrics of atherosclerotic plaque imaging. Her multi-disciplinary clinical and research program includes close collaborations between cardiology, rheumatology, and dermatology. As a testament to her success in this short time frame, she is the recipient of the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award.

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