Neela D Thangada

Cardiologist and clinician-scientist at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Neela D. Thangada is a Northwestern University cardiologist and clinician-scientist whose work connects preventive cardiology with accessible exercise-based cardiovascular care. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Northwestern and focuses clinically on preventive cardiology and echocardiography. Her research examines physical activity and exercise in cardiovascular disease prevention and management, including safe, accessible, and equitable home-based walking programs for patients with lower-extremity peripheral artery disease. She also studies how neighborhood environments and other structural determinants of health influence participation in exercise programs. She earned a BA from Rice University in 2013 and an MD from the University of Texas Southwestern in 2017, then completed internal medicine training, cardiovascular fellowship, an MSCI, and a cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention postdoctoral fellowship.