Nour Makarem is a Cardiovascular Epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She earned her B.S. from the American University of Beirut, her M.S. from McGill University, and her Ph.D. from New York University. She is also a member of the American Heart Association and the Sleep Research Society. She has received numerous awards, including the American Heart Association Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Early Investigator Award (2022), the Trudy Bush Award for Cardiovascular Disease Research in Women’s Health (2022), the Finalist, American Heart Association Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award (2020) and the Scholar of the National Institutes of Health Big Data to Knowledge MD2K mHealth Summer Training Institutes (2018). Her research sits at the intersection of preventive cardiology, sleep, and circadian science, nutrition, and epigenetics. Her interdisciplinary research program addresses the role of behavioral factors (sleep, diet, and rest-activity patterns) in cardiovascular risk and elucidates sex and ethnic differences in these relations. Her current research evaluates the contribution of sleep to cardiovascular health and cardiovascular disease risk modeling.