CarDS Lab wins top honors at the Northwestern Cardiovascular Forum

The Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum (NCYIF) is among the finest programs for clinician-scientists in the country.

At NCYIF 2021, Principal Investigator, Rohan Khera, MD, MS, received the Jeremiah Stamler Distinguished Young Investigator Research Award for Excellence in Clinical Science Cardiovascular Research, which is the top award in the junior faculty clinical research category. In his abstract, "Race/Ethnicity and Sex Differences in Lifetime Healthcare Expenses across Cardiovascular Risk Factors," Khera examined how socioeconomic factors affect healthcare spending over the lifetime of individuals and showed that there are statistically significant patterns of deferred care acting as excess spending among minorities in later life.

Evangelos Oikonomou, MD, DPhil, first-year clinical fellow received first-place in the fellows category for his work, “A Machine Learning Approach to Individualize the Cardiovascular Benefits of Canagliflozin Based on Participant-level Analyses of the CANVAS Trials.” The study assesses a strategy to individualize the use of sodium-glucose transport protein 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes and an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease. 

We congratulate both Rohan and Evan on their distinguished achievements!