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
Sameed Ahmed Mustafa Khatana, MD, MPH is a cardiovascular health services and policy researcher, a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, and a non-invasive cardiologist at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His research is dedicated to understanding how socioeconomic factors, social and public policies, and other factors such as environmental variables, impact the cardiovascular health of patients from vulnerable populations. This work is funded by career development awards from the NHLBI and the American Heart Association.
In one recent manuscript, published in JAMA, Dr. Khatana and colleagues demonstrated that diverging trends in economic prosperity across the United States after the Great Recession were associated with growing disparities in cardiovascular mortality rates in the United States between different parts of the country. Another area of interest is the cardiovascular care of patients experiencing homelessness. In two previous papers, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Khatana's team explored aspects of care provided to patients experiencing homelessness when they were hospitalized. In ongoing work, funded by a pilot award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, he is investigating how homelessness impacts cardiovascular care and health outcomes for veterans with cardiovascular disease. In the summer of 2022, Dr. Khatana and colleauges authored two manuscripts, published in JAMA Network Open and Circulation, exploring how extreme heat influences all-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates and the racial and ethnic disparities in this association. This work was covered by many media outlets, and Dr. Khatana was interviewed on national television on NBC News and Fox Weather to discuss the findings of their work. Dr. Khatana's career goal is to continue to advance his career as a cardiovascular health services researcher and to become an independently funded physician-scientist.