Sadiya S. Khan is a Northwestern University cardiovascular epidemiologist and preventive cardiologist whose work connects cardiovascular risk prediction, heart-failure prevention, and population health. She is Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and an Associate Professor in Cardiology, Medical Social Sciences, and Preventive Medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine. Her documented interests include cardiovascular genetics, cardiovascular risk factors, preventive cardiology, and heart-failure prevention, including disparities in premature heart-failure mortality among younger adults and Black men. Khan earned her MD from Northwestern in 2009, completed internal medicine training and cardiovascular fellowships at McGaw Medical Center, and held clinical instructor and assistant professor roles before becoming an associate professor in 2023. She led development of the PREVENT cardiovascular disease risk equations and has received two NIH R01 grants.
Research interests
Cardiovascular geneticsPrevention of heart failurePreventive cardiologyInfluence of risk factors on cardiovascular health and disease through preclinical, clinical, and population-level studiesLed development of the PREVENT cardiovascular disease risk equationsResearch on increasing heart failure death rates, with emphasis on younger adults and Black men
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