Anne L. Taylor, M.D.

Anne L. Taylor, M.D., is Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Dr. Taylor received her medical degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine and completed her internship, residency, and a two year clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her research training was conducted at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Iowa. She was Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she also served as Director of Echocardiography at Parkland Memorial Hospital. From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Taylor was an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at Case Western Reserve University and Chief of Cardiology at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In 1997, she was appointed Vice Chair for Women's Health Programs in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. In October, 2000, Dr. Taylor assumed the position of Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Minnesota School Medical School.

Dr. Taylor's interests include cardiovascular disease in African-Americans and women, and the transfer of principles of cardiovascular disease prevention from academia to the community.

Dr. Taylor is currently Chair of the Steering Committee for the African-American Heart Failure Trial, a national, multi-center trial of nitric oxide enhancing therapy in congestive heart failure. This is the first clinical heart failure trial to address the less favorable heart failure outcomes in African Americans. From 2001 to 2004, she was Director of the Association of Black Cardiologists Center for Women's Health whose mission is the reduction in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in women of color. In 2003, Dr. Taylor became Co-Director of the University of Minnesota National Center of Excellence in Women's Health. Dr. Taylor has authored numerous manuscripts, editorials, book chapters, and abstracts and has conducted research programs funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the Veterans Administration, and the Department of Education, and industry. She has served on numerous committees of the American Heart Association, the National Medical Association and the Association of Black Cardiologists.

In addition to her professional activities, Dr. Taylor is the mother of a lovely teenaged daughter, is an enthusiastic amateur musician, and gardener.