Dr. Retu Saxena completed her undergraduate degree in sociology and physiology at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and graduated from medical school at the University of Minnesota. She did her internship and residency in internal medicine at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, and also completed a critical care fellowship at OHSU. Her cardiology fellowship was completed at the University of New Mexico, where she remained on as faculty. During her time at the University of New Mexico, she was actively involved in the UNM Women’s Heart Clinic. She then moved to Minnesota to work with the region’s largest women’s heart clinic at the time. She eventually directed the echocardiography laboratory at her prior organization. She is now a cardiologist at the Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute. Her interests are women and heart disease, cardio-obstetrics, prevention, and noninvasive imaging. She was the first female governor of the Minnesota Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. She is currently on the ACC national membership committee and clinician well-being task force.