Jil C Tardiff

Jil Caryn Tardiff is an American cardiologist. She is the Steven M. Gootter Endowed Chair for the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

Early life and education Tardiff earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) before traveling to New York City to enroll at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for her medical degree and PhD in cell biology. She originally enrolled at UC Berkeley with the intention to major in English and pre-med studies but changed her mind after attending a lecture on the relative resistance to malaria. Upon completing her degrees, she did her internal medicine residency at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. She also launched several initiatives in the department of medicine including grant review and incentive programs for junior faculty members and developing the first CDA Research Symposium. In recognition of her efforts, she received a 2017 Faculty Mentoring Award along with Jarrod M. Mosier and C. Kent Kwoh. Tardiff was named to the scientific advisory board of the Marfan Foundation.