Leadership
Rohan Khera
Director
Dr. Rohan Khera is a Cardiologist-Data Scientist and the founder and Director of the Cardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab. He is also the Clinical Director of the Center for Health Informatics and Analytics at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.
Dr. Khera’s group is developing and implementing strategies to improve outcomes for patients with or at risk for cardiovascular disease through data-driven innovations in delivering evidence-based, patient-centered care. Dr. Khera’s work develops novel applications in medical informatics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to evaluate patient care and develop precision care solutions. His work spans broad digital data sources, including the electronic health record, electrocardiography, cardiovascular imaging, and wearable devices, with applications to modernize US and global healthcare. His work develops and applies to healthcare. The work in his Lab is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Dr. Khera graduated from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences as a National Young Investigator Scholarship awardee. During his internal medicine residency training at the University of Iowa and his cardiology fellowship training at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Khera received the American College of Cardiology’s Young Investigator Award and the Francois Abboud Young Investigator Award, in addition to being inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. For his work at Yale, Dr. Khera received the 2023 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award, the 2023 Blavatnik Award, and the 2021 Jeremiah Stamler Award.