Janice Scobie, MD

Dr. Scobie is a board-certified noninvasive clinical cardiologist with extensive experience in providing evidence-based cardiovascular care with a strong focus on primary and secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in outpatient clinical and community-based settings. Her work has also extended to the Caribbean where she performed and interpreted echocardiograms in areas without cardiovascular care and developed programs in collaboration with local health leaders centered on improvement of cardiovascular health. Dr. Scobie has led multiple clinical and community-based initiatives to improve self-management of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and other cardiovascular risk factors. She has served as Co-Chair of Community Programs for the Association of Black Cardiologists.

Dr. Scobie was born in Dominica, West Indies and immigrated to the United States at a young age where she was raised in New York City. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology and Society at Cornell University. She subsequently received her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania where she also went on to complete her residency training in Internal Medicine and then completed her fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Throughout her medical training she developed an interest in conducting research to reduce disparities in cardiovascular disease and improve cardiovascular health outcomes. After her Cardiovascular Fellowship, Dr. Scobie completed a master’s degree in health policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Research Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Since then, she has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and has done multiple presentations at national research meetings on cardiovascular disparities, and the development and implementation of outpatient clinical and community-based strategies to improve cardiovascular health outcomes