Dr. McNally is a physician and scientist who is keenly interested in bringing the benefits of research discovery to the practice of medicine. As a human geneticist and cardiologist, her clinical and research interests are in the genetics of cardiovascular and neuromuscular disorders. In addition to directing the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, she also leads the Cardiovascular Genetics program at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. The Center for Genetic Medicine studies genetic mechanisms responsible for inherited human diseases including heart failure, cardiomyopathy, muscular dystrophy, arrhythmias, aortic aneurysms. Working with individuals and families, they are defining the genetic mutations that cause these disorders. By establishing models for these disorders, development and testing can begin for new therapies, including genetic correction and gene editing.
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