Susan Howlett is Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine (Geriatric Medicine) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where she has taught for more than 30 years.  She has led discovery research into how age, frailty, and sex steroid hormones affect cardiovascular function and predispose towards heart diseases in later life.

With a strong record of funding from agencies including the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), Canada Biomedical Research Fund, River Phillips Foundation and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, she has held uninterrupted support from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (or its predecessor) since 1990. She is Associate Editor for The Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and is on numerous editorial boards for prominent journals in the field.  As the national Chair of the Scientific Review Committee for the HSFC and Chair of the Dalhousie Cardiac Research group (DalCREW), she has extensive leadership experience at the local, national, and international levels.  She has an H-index of 57, has published 196 peer-reviewed papers, 16 encyclopedia / book chapters, and has given more than 140 invited national and international presentations.  Her work has been selected as Editor’s Choice, featured in numerous editorials, and has been F1000Prime Recommended.

An enthusiastic supervisor, her training and mentorship of now generations of young scientists, the great bulk of whom have pursued academic careers, speaks to her ability to inspire young researchers.