Janet Catov is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Epidemiology and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh with extensive experience designing and conducting studies of population and clinical cohorts to understand determinants and consequences of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, preterm birth, and gestational diabetes. She is one of the top 3 scientists globally studying the intersection of pregnancy and cardiovascular disease (Web of Science, 2023). Her current research has focused on clues from placental function that may be markers of vascular pathophysiology that contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes and accelerated progression to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease across the maternal lifespan. Her lab has enrolled more than 8,000 women during or after pregnancy and has led discoveries that hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, gestational diabetes and a subset of spontaneous preterm births share an impaired vascular and atherogenic etiology detectable before, during and after pregnancy. Maternal sequelae of these adverse pregnancy outcomes reported by her group include atherogenic lipid profiles, subclinical atherosclerosis, cardiac remodeling, deterioration of cardiovascular health and impaired microvascular health. She also leads randomized trials to test intervention strategies to improve cardiovascular health after adverse pregnancy outcomes. She is the Director of Health and Clinical Research at Magee-Womens Research Institute, a member of the Magee-Womens Hospital Maternal Mortality Review Committee and oversee the Magee Obstetric Maternal and Infant (MOMI) Database and Biobank, a perinatal registry of births and linked biospecimens collected across pregnancy. She is the site MPI of several multicenter research consortia funded by NIH or and the American Heart Association: NuMoM2b-Heart Health Study (NICHD/NHLBI), Early Intervention to Promote Cardiovascular Health of Mothers and Children (ENRICH, NHLBI) and the Go Red for Women Strategically Focused Research Network (American Heart Association).