Built to Lead 2026 Women’s Summit – Power, Progress & Presence in the Built Environment: American Heart Association Presentation-Women’s Health
Cardiovascular Prevention as a Pillar of Professional Longevity
You can’t lead effectively—or sustain a long, impactful career—without prioritizing your most important asset: your health. This session, presented by the American Heart Association, explores the direct connection between cardiovascular health and professional performance, leadership capacity, and long-term career success.
Focused specifically on women in the built environment, this discussion will highlight how proactive prevention and early intervention can drive both personal well-being and professional longevity. Attendees will gain practical insight into optimizing key health indicators—including cholesterol, blood pressure, and weight—and understand how these factors influence energy, focus, and resilience on and off the job.
This isn’t just about wellness—it’s about building the foundation that allows you to lead, perform, and thrive over the long haul.
Presented by:
Dr. Simin Gharib Lee, Founder & CEO, Systole Health
Dr. Lee is a physician-entrepreneur with an MD/MBA background, practicing as a general cardiologist and building the first-of-its-kind intelligent group virtual care platform designed to fix the health system access crisis through workforce transformation and care redesign.
She is a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she provides comprehensive care for patients with heart and vascular conditions. She practices at the hospital’s renowned Heart & Vascular Center and is affiliated with Mass General Brigham, a leading academic health system.
Dr. Lee earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her internship, residency, and fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, developing deep expertise in cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
With over a decade of experience in cardiovascular medicine, Dr. Lee focuses on delivering patient-centered care grounded in the latest clinical research and advances in heart health.
Her work reflects a commitment to improving cardiovascular outcomes and supporting long-term health—particularly through prevention and early intervention strategies that help patients live healthier, more resilient lives.
Dr. Ami Bhatt, MD, FACC, Past President of AHA Boston
Ami B. Bhatt, MD, FACC is the Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an active clinical cardiologist, investigator, and educator. She graduated from Harvard College, obtained her doctoral degree from Yale School of Medicine, and trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Boston, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in internal medicine, pediatrics, adult cardiology, and adult congenital heart disease (ACHD).
As Director of Outpatient Services for the MGH Cardiology Division, Dr. Bhatt is working with patient & family advocates, administration, and process improvement & workflow design teams on enhancing the outpatient care delivery model. Her work centers on applying process improvement and systems design thinking to enhance multidisciplinary care and create transparent systems for coordinating and achieving patient centered outcomes, alleviating physician burn-out, and emphasizing that the two are not mutually exclusive. The MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab is home to her creative side, and allows her the space to innovate with partners from different professional disciplines. When she’s not busy innovating, Dr. Bhatt spends time with her husband and two daughters, having dance parties and traveling.
Dr. Jennifer Cluett, Director, Complex Hypertension Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, President, AHA Boston
Jennifer L. Cluett, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician and hypertension specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She serves as medical director of multiple hypertension-focused initiatives, including a Comprehensive Hypertension Center and a Remote Hypertension Monitoring Program. Dr. Cluett is board-certified in internal medicine and has over two decades of experience caring for adult patients, with a clinical focus on hypertension management and cardiovascular disease prevention. In addition to her clinical work, she is actively involved in teaching and mentoring trainees and conducts research aimed at improving hypertension care and advancing health equity.