Tara Narula

Tara Narula

Cardiologist and Associate Professor

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Tara Narula is a board-certified cardiologist, associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine, associate director of the Women’s Heart Program at Lenox Hill Hospital, and director of communications for the Katz Institute of Women’s Health. An award-winning journalist, she is also the current chief medical correspondent for ABC News. After graduating from Stanford University, she founded her own small business before getting her medical degree at USC Keck School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Harvard University/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and her fellowship training in cardiology at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and serves as a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association. She lives in New York City with her husband, who is also a physician, and her two daughters. She is the author of The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being.

Book cover for "The Healing Power of Resilience" by Tara Narula, MD, featuring a flower entwined with an EKG line, symbolizing the healing power of resilience, on a beige background with a red border.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.