Sharonne Hayes

WASHINGTON — Mayo Clinic is participating in the White House Forum on Excellence and Innovation through Diversity in the STEM Workforce. Participants [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Aug. 13, 2013 — Hispanic Network Magazine has named Mayo Clinic among the top institutions for employing Hispanics in science, technology, engineering and math. Earlier this year the magazine selected Mayo as a top hospital for Hispanics. The latest listing appears in the publication's Best of the Best issue this month. In a letter announcing the award to Mayo Clinic, Hispanic Network Magazine described its goal to create an environment of teamwork in which Hispanics and other minorities have access to all applicable business and career opportunities.

Dr. Sharonne Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, in April was named one of the Girl Scout River Valleys 2013 Women of Distinction. When Dr. Hayes began working at Mayo Clinic, she became keenly aware that women in medicine, and particularly in cardiology, were still a minority. As she began her career in cardiology, she also saw the unique needs of women suffering from or at risk for cardiovascular disease, so in 1998 she founded Mayo Clinic’s Women’s Heart Clinic, one of the first in the country. The clinic provides sex-and gender-based cardiovascular care and women-focused research with a goal to improve clinical outcomes and advance the science. As a pioneer in the women’s health field, Dr. Hayes is a nationally recognized educator and advocate for women’s cardiovascular issues. She serves on the Board of Directors of WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. In addition to her role as cardiologist, Dr. Hayes also became the first director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Mayo Clinic in 2010. Dr. Hayes has been a Girl Scout for as long as she can remember and credits her mother for her positive experience in scouting. She believes in the power of the Girl Scout sisterhood and knows all girls have the potential to be leaders who can make the world a better place through service. Since 2009, Girl Scouts River Valleys has annually honored local role models whose professional accomplishments, leadership and community contributions inspire girls to reach their highest potential. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJguQ91UQts&feature=youtu.be

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has been ranked No. 6 on the 2013 DiversityInc Top 10 Hospital System for its ongoing commitment to diversity and [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — July 16, 2012.  Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), a tear of the layers of the artery wall that can block normal blood flow into and around the heart, is a relatively rare and poorly understood condition. It often strikes young, otherwise healthy people — mostly women — and can lead to significant heart damage, even sudden death. Now, in the first study of its kind of such patients, Mayo Clinic researchers have started to uncover important clues about SCAD, including its potential risk factors, optimal treatment approaches and short- and long-term cardiovascular outcomes, including a higher-than-expected rate of recurrence. They also found a surprising link to fibromuscular dysplasia, another rare condition that causes a narrowing in some arteries.

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Researchers hope the findings, published online in Circulation on Monday, July 16, will help physicians better identify and treat SCAD and understand the need for routine monitoring of these patients. To date, clinicians have mostly relied on case reports, but thanks to this study and a patient-driven effort to find answers, the research is advancing quickly. "SCAD is not related to plaque buildup that more commonly causes coronary blockages; it's a completely different disease process. These patients are typically young, fit and healthy and they are blown away by a totally unexpected heart attack," says Rajiv Gulati, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular interventionalist at Mayo Clinic. "This research helps us to define this condition, and it gives us important information about the natural history of the disease." Mayo researchers now believe the condition may be more common than initially thought. Marysia Tweet, M.D., Mayo Clinic cardiology fellow, says they now suspect many heart attacks caused by SCAD have been mislabeled as cholesterol blockages. Researchers retrospectively evaluated the incidence, clinical characteristics, treatments, in-hospital outcomes and long-term risk of SCAD recurrence or major adverse cardiac events in 87 patients with confirmed SCAD. Patients were studied for a median of four years.

Sixty women from across the country gathered in Rochester, Minnesota, for the 8th annual Science & Leadership Symposium, a joint effort between Mayo Clinic's Women's [...]