Full Name
Sadiya Khan, MD, MSc
Job Title
Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Company
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Speaker Bio
Dr. Sadiya S. Khan is the Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Associate Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, inaugural Director of the Center of Population Science and Aging in the Potocsnak Longevity Institute, and preventive cardiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Khan's clinical expertise and research focus on the epidemiology, risk prediction, and prevention of cardiovascular disease. In 2023, Dr. Khan served as the Chair of the AHA Writing Group that developed and validated the novel PREVENT equations. In aggregate, Dr. Khan's research efforts are supported by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, including as PI of one of the De-Biasing Clinical Care Algorithms in Cardiovascular Care (DECCA) projects that will extend the evaluation of the PREVENT equations in diverse real-world populations. Dr. Khan has published over 320 peer-reviewed scientific research publications in leading medical journals and has an h-index of 43 (Scopus, May 2024). Her original science has been highlighted by the American Heart Association as among the Top Advances in Heart Disease and Stroke Research for four consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). She is an Associate Editor at JAMA Cardiology and serves in key leadership roles in the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, including as a member of the Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Sadiya Khan, MD, MSc