Dr. Qi Fu is Director of the Women’s Heart Health Laboratory at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. As a medical researcher, she practiced medicine in the Department of Neurology for 8 years and has been studying autonomic circulatory control and vascular function in a wide range of populations for over 20 years. From healthy individuals and pregnant women to patients with hypertension, orthostatic intolerance, syncope or advanced heart failure with left ventricular assist devices, she has explored the field of blood pressure regulation during various interventions in great detail. One of her research focuses is sympathetic neural control of blood pressure during pregnancy in humans. Dr. Fu’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the Harry S. Moss Heart Foundation. Dr. Fu has published about 135 peer-reviewed research papers, review articles and book chapters. She has received numerous awards, such as the Japanese Foundation for Aging and Health Award, David H.P. Streeten American Autonomic Society Award, and the American Physiology Society Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award. Dr. Fu has served as one of the Board Directors of the American Autonomic Society.