Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, MS
Assistant Director, Women's Heart Center
Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, MS, is Assistant Director of the Women's Heart Center and a physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The Women's Heart Center is designed to help women reduce their chances of heart disease through a preventive approach, including state-of-the-art screening and diagnostic testing. Dr. Shufelt's special interests are hormone therapy assessments in the perimenopausal and menopausal transition and preventive cardiology. She has an advanced preventive women's health clinic that focuses on cardiovascular disease assessments, menopausal symptoms, high risk hormone counseling, advanced dyslipidemia, and refractory hypertension.
Dr. Shufelt is board certified in internal medicine. She is a member of the American College of Physicians, the North American Menopause Society, and the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences. Her research interests are women and heart disease, including microvascular disease as well as hormones and heart disease.
Dr. Shufelt is co-investigator on many studies at Cedars-Sinai, including those focusing on heart disease of small arteries in women. She has published in numerous peer reviewed journals and has presented at both national and international conferences. She also is a community speaker, providing the latest information about the major disease that affect women.
Dr. Shufelt received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine and her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She completed her internal medicine residency in Santa Barbara at Cottage Hospital and a Women's Heart Disease and Health Fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Shufelt also received a master's degree in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Southern California.
