Dr. Qi Fu is Director of the Women’s Heart Health Laboratory at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. As a medical researcher, she practiced medicine in the Department of Neurology for 8 years and has been studying autonomic circulatory control and vascular function in a wide range of populations for over 27 years. From healthy individuals and pregnant women to patients with hypertension, orthostatic intolerance, syncope, post-traumatic stress disorder, advanced heart failure with left ventricular assist devices, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, she has explored the field of blood pressure regulation during various interventions in great detail. The majority of her current and past funded projects focus on the mechanisms underlying blood pressure regulation in women. She has numerous publications on women’s health-related research and has demonstrated a record of successful and productive research projects in an area of high relevance for women’s health. Dr. Fu’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the Harry S. Moss Heart Foundation. Dr. Fu has published nearly 170 peer-reviewed research papers, review articles and book chapters. She has received numerous awards, such as the Japanese Foundation for Aging and Health Award, the David H.P. Streeten American Autonomic Society Award, and the American Physiology Society Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award. Dr. Fu also has a track record of mentoring and has trained 28 graduate students and 15 post-doctoral fellows with the goal of them becoming the next generation of scientific leaders in the field of women’s health research.