Sharonne N. Hayes, M.D., FACC, FAHA
ElevateMeD Advisory Board
Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and founded and maintains an active clinical practice in the Women’s Heart Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Hayes leads efforts aimed at optimizing women’s health and applies her considerable expertise to advance health and workforce equity. She served as Mayo Clinic’s first Director of Diversity and Inclusion from 2010 through 2020. With leadership she set strategy for D&I activities across Mayo Clinic and developed solutions for equity in patient care and the workforce. Under her leadership, Mayo Clinic was nationally recognized for its D&I accomplishments. She developed programs to enhance the professional and personal development and mentorship of women and minoritized physicians in order to promote a more diverse workforce at Mayo and in the field of medicine. A mentor to many, in 2017 she was recognized by the AHA with the Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award. She serves as a founder of Time’s Up Healthcare and is a tireless advocate for safe, equitable, and dignified healthcare workplaces that promote high-quality patient care and has developed programs to assess and mitigate unconscious bias in healthcare.
Dr. Hayes is a member of a number of national initiatives and groups involved in education, strategic planning, and program development for improvement of health care and reduction of health disparities. She helped develop the NHLBI’s Heart Truth (“Red Dress”) campaign, is active with AHA’s Go Red Campaign and served on the Board of Directors for WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. With WomenHeart, Dr. Hayes coordinates the Science and Leadership Symposium for Women with Heart Disease, held annually at Mayo Clinic, aimed at preparing heart disease survivors to be advocates and educators for other women. Her research interests include sex and gender-based cardiology, spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), health equity, participation of women and minorities in medical research, healthcare workforce equity, and the utility and optimal role of social media in clinical practice, medical research and health education.
Dr. Hayes is a nationally recognized educator and speaker on diversity, women’s health and cardiovascular issues and has developed numerous medical educational programs on women’s health, health equity and diversity and inclusion topics for both medical professionals and the public. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago and pursued fellowships in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research, and Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic Rochester, joining the Mayo staff in 1990. She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association and a member of the Association of Black Cardiologists and has served in volunteer leadership roles for these organizations at the local, regional and national level.