Dr. Milla Arabadjian, PhD, FNP-BC, RN

About Dr. Arabadjian

Dr. Arabadjian is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Population and Health Services Research at NYU Long Island School of Medicine. She is a nurse scientist whose research focuses on addressing multi-level health disparities in underrepresented populations with cardiac conditions, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), hypertension, and myocardial ischemia. She has over 15 years of clinical nurse/nurse practitioner expertise with individuals with complex cardiovascular disease, 10 of which focused on managing individuals with HCM. Her dissertation focused on examining differences in clinical characteristics, outcomes and quality of life among Black and white adults with HCM. Her postdoctoral work was a mixed methods pilot study of genetic testing utilization among a Black cohort with HCM, funded by the NYU Meyers P20 Center of Precision Health in Diverse Populations. More recently, she has begun investigating hypertension risk among Black mothers of young children using data from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) and the Intergenerational Impact of Genetic and Psychological Factors on Blood Pressure (InterGEN) study. She is developing a study to adapt the CLIP strategy for use in childcare centers in NYC to improve hypertension prevention in socially vulnerable mothers.