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Countdown to 2021 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

August 16, 2021
by Elisabeth Reitman

Preparations are underway for the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. Held November 13-15, 2021 in Boston, MA, this three-day hybrid learning experience will include posters and oral abstracts from researchers, clinicians, and scientists.

A variety of work from the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine can be found below:

November 13

Non late-breaking abstracts will be available online Monday, November 8, 5:00 am ET.

Yuan Lu, Jing Li, Xialin Wang, Sreemanee Dorajoo, Mengling Feng, Min-Huei Hsu, Jason C. C Hsu, Jiyoung Hwang, Usman Iqbal, Zhengfeng J Chen, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Yu-Chuan Yu-Chuan Li, Teng Liaw, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Phung-Anh Nguyen, Rae Woong Park, Nicole Pratt, Christian Reich, Sang Youl Rhee, Selva M Sathappan, Hui Xing Tan, Seng Chan You, Xin Zhang, Harlan M Krumholz, Marc Suchard, Yun Liu, Mui Van Zandt, Hua Xu


Yuan Lu, Yun Wang, Erica S Spatz, Oyere Kalu Onuma, Khurram Nasir, Fatima Rodriguez, Karol E Watson, Harlan M Krumholz

Yuan Lu, Yuntian Liu, Lovedeep Dhingra, Daisy Massey, Cesar Caraballo, Shiwani Mahajan, Jeph Herrin, Harlan Krumholz


Daniel L Jacoby, Matthew T Wheeler, Perry Mark Elliott, Sara Saberi, Amy J Sehnert, Jay M Edelberg, Wanying Li, Iacopo Olivotto


Shiwani Mahajan, Javier Valero Elizondo, Rohan Khera, Mohamad Taha, Isaac Acquah, Miguel Cainzos Achirica, Harlan M Krumholz, Khurram Nasir


Elliott Miller, Samantha G. Bromfield, Qinli Ma, Geoffrey Crawford, John Whitney, Andrea Devries, Nihar R Desai


Rohan Khera, Mengni Liu, Nitin Kondamudi, Erica S Spatz, Colby Ayers, Tiffany Powell-wiley, Ethan A Halm, Ambarish Pandey


Mohamad Taha, Javier Valero Elizondo, Cesar Caraballo, Tamer Yahya, Rohan Khera, Priyanka Satish, Isaac Acquah, Kobina Hagan, Kershaw Patel, Elias Mossialos, Miguel Cainzos Achirica, Khurram Nasir


Yuan Lu, Yuntian Liu, Cesar Caraballo, Daisy Massey, Shiwani Mahajan, Jeph Herrin, Harlan M Krumholz


Lindsey E. Scierka, Zain V. Ahmed, Sameh Yousef, Ahmad Arham, Alyssa A. Grimshaw, Kristie Harris, Matthew Burg, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, Kim G Smolderen

Carlos Mena-Hurtado

Carlos Mena-Hurtado

Jay D. Coffman Early Career Investigator Award Competition

Mohsin Chowdhury, Kim G Smolderen, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, John Spertus, Robert W Yeh, Eric A Secemsky


Julia Friberg, Abdul H Qazi, Brenden Boyle, Carrie Franciscus, Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, Dax Westerman, Olga V Patterson, Sharidan K Parr, Michael E Matheny, Shipra Arya, Kim G Smolderen, Brian Lund, Glenn T Gobbel, Saket Girotra


Arash Aghajani Nargesi, Jonathan Hanna, Rohan Khera

Benjamin Rosand, Dragomir Radev, Harlan M Krumholz, Rohan Khera

Rohan Khera


November 14


Finalist Robert Levy Memorial Lecture and Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Early Career Investigator Award Competition

Evangelos K. Oikonomou, Marc Suchard, David Geffen, Rohan Khera


Stephen Y Wang, Philip Adejumo, Oyere K Onuma, Edward J Miller, Erica S Spatz


Jeremy B Provance, Kim G Smolderen, Jialin Mao, Philip P Goodney, Peter Henke, Art Sedrakyan, Pragati Bogra, Carlos Mena-hurtado


Neel M Butala, Kamil Faridi, Hector Tamez, Jordan B Strom, Yang Song, Changyu Shen, Eric A Secemsky, Laura Mauri, Dean J. Kereiakes, Jeptha P Curtis, Charles Michael Gibson, Robert W Yeh


Leslie Tseng, Samit Shah, Leslie Curry, Erica S Spatz

Michael Fuery, Fouad Chouairi, Peter Natov, Jasjit Bhinder, Maya Chiravuri, Lynn Wilson, Katherine Clark, Samuel Reinhardt, Clancy Mullan, Elliott Miller, Joseph G Rogers, Chetan Patel, Sounok Sen, Arnar Geirsson, Muhammad Anwer, Nihar R. Desai, Tariq Ahmad

Tariq Ahmad, Yu Yamamoto, Aditya Biswas, Lama Ghazi, Melissa Martin, Michael Simonov, Allen Hsiao, Nitu Kashyap, Eric Jose Velazquez, Nihar R. Desai, Francis Perry Wilson


November 15


Evangelos K. Oikonomou, Marc A Suchard, Darren K McGuire, Rohan Khera


Rachel Lampert, Michael John Ackerman, Bradley S Marino, Matthew Burg, Barbara Ainsworth, Lisa Salberg, Seshadri Balaji II, Carolyn Ho, Richard J Czosek, Cynthia James, Michael Emery, Robert Cooper, Martijn Bos, Jeffrey B Geske, Lubna Choudhury, Susan P Etheridge, Ashwin K Lal, James Simon Ware, Anne M Dubin, Belinda Gray, Silvana M Molossi, Martin S Maron, Sara Saberi, Daniel L Jacoby, Benjamin W Eidem, Kim Harmon, Kevin Hall, Brian Olshansky, Mark S Link, Elizabeth V Saarel, N A Estes III, Barry Maron, David S Cannom, Fangyong Li, Kaylie Briske, Laura Simone, Cheryl Barth, Maryann Concannon, Sharlene Day


Eric Smith, Brynn Elder, Gabriela Chen, Yao-chang Tsan, John Stendahl, Jodie Ingles, Victoria N Parikh, Samuel Wittekind, Steven Colan, Neal K Lakdawala, Anjali T Owens, Daniel L Jacoby, Sharlene Day, Christopher Semsarian, Iacopo Olivotto, Carolyn Ho, Mark W RUSSELL, Sara Saberi, James Simon Ware, Adam S Helms


Supum Lee, Pedro Gil de Rubio Cruz, Stephanie Thorn, Zhao Liu, Christi Hawley, Marina Mamarian, Tymoteusz Turlejski, Ling Jian Meng, Chi Liu, Albert Sinusas


Stephen Y Wang, Javier Valero Elizondo, Khurram Nasir, Rohan Khera

  • ECG-DualNet: A MultiLabel Model for Automated Diagnosis on Both Electrocardiographic Signals and Printed 12-lead Electrocardiograms

Veer Sangha, Rohan Khera

Rohan Khera

Rohan Khera

Rohan Khera


Special Program: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions

The Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Meeting (QCOR) will also be held on Monday, November 15 in conjunction with AHA Scientific Sessions 2021. Session details are to be announced.


  • Predicting In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure Using a Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning on a Single Admission Chest X-Ray

David Hidalgo-Goto, Rohan Khera

  • Prescribing Patterns of Cardioprotective Antihyperglycemics Among Medicare Beneficiaries Across United States Counties by their Socioeconomic Disadvantageousness

Jonathan Hanna, Rohan Khera

  • Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Peripheral Artery Disease Admissions: Associations With Post-Revascularization Amputation and Resource Utilization

Kristie M. Harris, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, Matthew M. Burg, Kim G. Smolderen

  • Access to Care among Hispanic Patients Hospitalized for Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease

Kristie M. Harris, Paulina Luna, Yulanka Castro-Dominguez, Carolina Severiche-Mena, Kim G. Smolderen, Carlos Mena-Hurtado

Support Late-Breaking Cardiovascular Research from Scientific Sessions 2021

Are you looking to promote a poster or presentation? Email elisabeth.reitman@yale.edu to share your work with the Yale community.