ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Rohan Khera, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine and Health Informatics at the Yale School of Medicine, where he leads the Cardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab. He is also the Clinical Director of the Center for Health Informatics and Analytics at the Yale/YNHH Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. Dr. Khera’s work focuses on developing and applying innovations in data science to improve cardiovascular care. He graduated from the prestigious All India of Medical Sciences where he was 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 academic accomplishments. Dr. Khera also received the Jeremiah Stamler Distinguished Young Investigator Research Award for 2021.
He is a recipient of a K23 Award from the National Institutes of Health, and a Clinician-Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He leads a broad portfolio in health innovation science. First, he has led the development of automated assays of care quality within the electronic health record. Second, he has developed novel technology for detecting structural heart diseases through applications of deep learning and artificial intelligence to electrocardiographic images and wearable devices. Third, he has spearheaded methodological development for personalized inference from randomized clinical trials using machine learning. Finally, he is designing solutions to scale data science innovations through novel federated learning approaches. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed studies in leading medical journals. In addition to science, Dr. Khera has developed a program to mentor early career scientists in applied healthcare data science.