Director, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute; Chief, Division of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar is the Smith & Lucille Gibson Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Environmental Medicine, and Director of the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville.
A Fellow of the American Heart Association, he is recognized as a pioneer in the field of environmental cardiology, which examines how environmental exposures affect cardiovascular health and disease risk. His research explores how oxidative stress from internal and environmental sources contributes to cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Bhatnagar has authored hundreds of scientific publications and is the recipient of the Norman Alpert Award by the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Outstanding Mentor Award by the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. He is the principal investigator of The Green Heart Louisville Project, a groundbreaking, community-based clinical trial to examine how an increase in neighborhood greenery affects the levels of air pollution and cardiovascular disease risk. He is also the host of the podcast “Elements of Nature.”
