Dr. Jesse Moreira is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Human Physiology at Boston University Sargent College. Their teaching and research focus on LGBTQIA2S+ equity and inclusion in STEM and physiology education. During the latter portion of their postdoctoral fellowship, they began an independent research program on LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion. He is currently assessing methods to redesign undergraduate and graduate physiology curricula to better educate students on the pathophysiology of marginalization-related psychosocial stress and disproportionate burden of CVDs in marginalized populations. He has been teaching since 2014 and is currently the instructor of record for cross listed undergraduate/graduate courses in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Neuroanatomy/Neurophysiology at Boston University. Ultimately, their goal is to reform and build equitable education in undergraduate and graduate STEM classrooms and shift academic culture and climate.

Dr. Moreira previously completed an NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular medicine in the laboratories of Dr. Jessica Fetterman, Dr. Deepa Gopal, and Dr. Darrell Kotton at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Moreira has had a long-standing interest in cardiovascular pathophysiology research, and has built expertise in the areas of hypertension, heart failure, and mitochondrial cardiomyopathy. He is experienced with both invasive animal models of cardiovascular physiology and disease and human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Through research, he has gained technical ability in tissue histochemical stain techniques including immunofluorescence, multiplex staining, and RNAScope. Additionally, Dr Moreira has experience with ELISA, western blot, flow cytometry, mitochondrial respirometry, and invasive physiology including invasive aortic blood pressure recording and live drug responses. Dr. Moreira still actively participates in Dr. Fetterman's research on cardiac models of mitochondrial disease.