I earned a Ph.D. in cardiovascular physiology from the University of Notre Dame (1995) and had NIEHS-Postdoctoral Fellow training in cardiovascular toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX; Dr. Paul Boor, M.D., 1996-1998). After 5 years as Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, I joined Drs. Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D., and Sanjay Srivastava, Ph.D., at the University of Louisville in 2003 to pursue “Environmental Cardiology” research. I became a tenured Professor of Medicine in 2016, and currently, my research on the cardiovascular and pulmonary toxicity of air pollution and tobacco product-derived aerosols focuses on the role of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). My research is funded by a Superfund Research Center (P42); an American Heart Association - Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (AHA-TCORS; U54); the Center for Cardiometabolic Science (P30); the Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences (P30); and FDA R01, and, a Department of Defense grant. Uniquely, all of these research Centers are virtually housed within the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute.