For 23 years, I was an attorney in the Division of Investment Management at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. I retired in 2014.

I became interested in medical research while researching treatment options for my then-teenage daughter, who has familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a genetic disease that causes very high LDL-cholesterol. My husband also has FH. I am a member of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare.  In addition, I am a member/administrator of the Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) Discussion Group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/47098836197/).  I was patient advisor for Circulation:  Population Health and Outcomes, one of the American Heart Association journals. I helped edit a series of articles by patients or their family members (listed here). I am a patient reviewer for BMJ. I was a member of the stakeholder engagement committee for C3FIT, a trial of post-stroke care, funded by PCORI. I am a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. In 2021, I was diagnosed with microvascular angina.

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Disclosures:  My husband and I invest primarily in the Thrift Savings Plan and in diversified mutual funds and ETFs. I inherited some individual stocks, a few of which were issued by health care companies, but I sold the last of those stocks in 2022.