ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
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
Parag Goyal, MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine with appointments in the Division of Cardiology (as a board-certified heart failure cardiologist) and the Division of General Internal Medicine (as a member of the core health services research faculty). Dr. Goyal serves as the Director of the Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) Program, and Director of the Cardiac Amyloidosis Program at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Goyal has a robust research program focused on improving the wellbeing of older adults with heart failure, with a special focus on optimizing pharmacotherapy in the setting of concurrent geriatric conditions. This work has been supported by extramural funding from the National Institute on Aging and American Heart Association. In August 2020, Dr. Goyal received the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76) from the National Institute on Aging to develop and test a patient-centered strategy to address polypharmacy in older adults with heart failure through deprescribing.
Dr. Goyal is also an active member of the American College of Cardiology, where he currently serves as the Chair of the Geriatric Cardiology Early Career Professionals Working Group. He also Co-Chairs the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Heart Failure Working Group. He also sits on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Circulation-HeartFailure, and serves as the Geriatric Cardiology Section Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure.