Susan Gilchrist

Dr. Gilchrist is an expert in cardiovascular prevention with a special focus on patients with cancer. She has a VO2 testing lab within her clinical practice, providing objective cardiorespiratory fitness assessment and personalized exercise prescriptions for patients. This is the first cardiovascular prevention program in the U.S. focused exclusively on improving fitness and mitigating existing cardiovascular risk factors in patients treated for cancer. Dr. Gilchrist’s clinical research program focuses on epidemiological studies relating fitness to cancer outcomes and clinical studies to assess the optimal intensity, duration, and timing of exercise training in the chemoprevention setting as well as during and after cancer treatment.