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Clyde Yancy MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University

Vice-Dean, Diversity & Inclusion
Chief of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Professor, Medical Social Sciences
Associate Director
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Deputy Editor, JAMA Cardiology
Chicago, IL

Associate Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He holds the Magerstadt Endowed Professor of Medicine Chair and also serves as Professor of Medical Social Sciences. He concurrently serves as Vice Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Yancy’s research interests are heart failure, clinical guideline generation, outcomes sciences, personalized medicine, and health care disparities. He is extensively published with well over 500 peer reviewed publications and has been named annually as one of the most highly cited scientific authors worldwide. Dr. Yancy is Deputy Editor, JAMA Cardiology, and Senior Section Editor (Heart Failure), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). He serves on the editorial boards for Circulation, Circulation Heart Failure, the American Heart Journal, and JACC Heart Failure.

Dr. Yancy is a Master of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), a Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), a Master of the American College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America. He has served on innumerable clinical practice guideline writing committees and is the immediate past chair of the ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guideline Writing Committee, and co-chair of the ACC Diversity & Inclusion Taskforce. Dr. Yancy is a former president of AHA (2009–2010). He has completed extensive Government service for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

In 2016, Dr. Yancy was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. In 2018, he was appointed to the Minority Health Affairs Subcommittee, Department of Health and Human Services. Also in 2018, Dr. Yancy received two lifetime achievement awards for clinical research from WomenHeart and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation®. In 2019, he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2020, he received membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

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