Dr. Seidelmann is an internationally recognized physician scientist, with expertise in nutrition and preventive cardiology.
Her research has been incorporated into clinical preventive health guidelines in the United States and Europe, including those of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology, and the National Lipid Association.
Following undergraduate education at Cornell University, she completed a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and a Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. in Nutritional and Metabolic Biology from Columbia University and the Institute of Human Nutrition, graduating with distinction. She completed post-graduate and medical training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Case Western Medical School. From medical school she was accepted into the prestigious Physician Scientist Training Program at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital, where she finished her internship and residency training in Internal Medicine and clinical fellowship training in Cardiovascular Medicine. She went on to Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital, completing research and clinical training supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Her research has focused on understanding the complex inter-relationship between genes, pathogens, nutrients, cardiovascular health, and aging. Her original research has been published in top-tier medical journals such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, European Heart Journal, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lancet Public Health and Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
Notable work includes her genetic research on the sodium-glucose transporter SGLT1, which spurred two clinical trials of the SGLT1/SGLT2 inhibitor Sotagliflozin, both published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2021 and showing dramatic reduction of death and heart failure in those receiving the drug versus placebo. She was also the Principal Investigator of the Study of Lifestyle and Covid-19 Risk in Physicians and Nurses, collaborating with researchers from Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Cedars-Sinai.
Her expertise has been featured in over 600 news articles by media outlets worldwide, including Forbes, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Time, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, the New York Times and the BBC, and she has been an invited speaker at forums as diverse as the Karolinska Institute, the Danish Parliament, and the National Institutes of Health.
Academically, Dr. Seidelmann has taught medical students and mentored residents and fellows at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard Medical Schools, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Her clinical passions are cardiometabolic disease, preventive cardiology, weight loss and personalized medicine.
Personally, Dr. Seidelmann is a third generation Greenwich, CT native. She finds great happiness in raising her family surrounded by her vast extended family and dear friends, and serving a community she cares deeply for.