Merry L. Lindsey is an American cardiac physiologist. In 2022 she was named the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Meharry Medical College. In 2019 she was named the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Chair of the

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Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and the director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Research. In 2021, Lindsey was appointed

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of the ''American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology.''

Early life and education

Lindsey was born Stuart, Florida in 1970 and raised in

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, where she attended South Fork High School. Following high school, Lindsey earned her undergraduate degree in biology from

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and her PhD in cardiovascular sciences from

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Career

Upon completing her PhD, Lindsey worked at the

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as an

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before joining the faculty at the

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. In 2019, she left the Mississippi Center for Heart Research to accept an appointment as the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Chair of the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology at the

. Upon joining the department, Lindsey also became the founding director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Research. She joined

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as the dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. In 2021, Lindsey was appointed

of the ''American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology'', a journal published by the

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''.'' She received the Vincenzo Panagia Distinguished Lecture Award from the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at St-Boniface Hospital Research in 2021, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the British Society for Cardiovascular Research in 2022.

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