Dr. Beckie is Professor in the College of Nursing and Professor in the College of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of South Florida. She received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Saskatchewan and a master and doctoral degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her program of research has substantially contributed to the breadth and depth of the science for improving health behaviors outcomes of women with cardiovascular disease. With National Institutes of Health funding, she was the first to develop a motivationally tailored cardiac rehabilitation program specifically for women. The international reputation of her work to understand the environmental and genetic risks for cardiovascular disease among women, their unique physiological and psychosocial risks, and gender-specific barriers to disease self-management, led to contributions to numerous American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology scientific statements and clinical practice guidelines including guidelines for preventing cardiovascular disease in women, acute myocardial infarction in women, and performance measures for delivering cardiac rehabilitation. Her current research seeks to improve the healthy behaviors of women with heart disease by translating her face-to-face cardiac rehabilitation program to a secondary prevention intervention using wearable sensors and a smartphone. The program, HerBeat, could revolutionize the delivery of behavior change interventions personalized to womens lives.