Kate Freeman, MSN, AGACNP-BC
I didn’t leave cardiology.
I expanded how I practice it.
Because prevention deserves a much bigger place in the conversation.
For more than a decade, I built my career in cardiac electrophysiology. I helped open an ambulatory surgery center as a new nurse practitioner, worked alongside internationally recognized electrophysiologists, educated colleagues, developed clinical workflows, and helped improve the systems caring for thousands of patients.
I loved the complexity, the collaboration, and the privilege of caring for people with advanced cardiovascular disease.
Every day, I cared for patients whose heart disease had roots stretching back years—sometimes decades.
Insulin resistance. Pregnancy complications. Menopause. Muscle loss. Sleep. Inflammation.
Risk factors that often evolved quietly long before anyone called them disease.
Why I built AthenaVita
Over time, I found myself wanting to spend more of my career focused upstream—helping women recognize and address these risks earlier, before they progressed into disease. That shift in perspective ultimately led me to build AthenaVita.
Today, I combine my cardiology background with evidence-based lifestyle strategies to help women better understand and improve their cardiometabolic health. My goal isn’t simply to improve lab values. It’s to help women understand what’s happening inside their bodies, ask better questions, advocate for themselves, and build the habits that support a stronger future.
I’m still deeply connected to cardiology and continue practicing clinically, but today my greatest passion is translating years of cardiovascular expertise into conversations women can actually use.
This work also reflects the life I want to live.
As a wife and mother of two, I wanted to build something rooted in meaningful work, curiosity, integrity, family, and the belief that prevention should empower rather than frighten.
The future of heart health isn’t just treating disease well.
It’s helping women recognize risk earlier, understand it better, and change the trajectory before disease ever has the chance to begin.
I’m glad you’re here.
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The AthenaVita Philosophy
A trajectory-based approach to prevention.
AthenaVita™ focuses on recognizing physiologic shifts earlier—before disease becomes clinically obvious. The goal is not simply symptom management or isolated lab interpretation. The goal is earlier recognition of physiologic shifts that influence long-term cardiometabolic health.
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We operate differently than traditional healthcare:
Trajectory is prioritized over static values. Where you're headed matters more than where you are today.
Sex-specific factors are central, not peripheral. Reproductive history and menopause timing drive risk assessment.
Intervention is proactive and structured. Every recommendation is tied to measurable physiologic targets.
The goal is not short-term optimization. The goal is long-term risk reduction.
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AthenaVita is anchored in guidelines from the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, and The Menopause Society.
We emphasize risk, physiology, and outcomes—not optimization language or unproven protocols.
This is not functional medicine. This is not wellness. This is rigorous, cardiology-informed prevention care.
The MRS PREVENT™
Framework
AthenaVita Clinical™ is guided by the proprietary MRS PREVENT™ framework—a structured model integrating reproductive history, cardiometabolic risk, body composition, symptom patterns, lifestyle physiology, and longitudinal trajectory assessment.