Ashkan Abdollahi, MD

Dr. Ashkan Abdollahi is a resident in the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Cardiovascular Imaging Lab. He earned his MD from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.

At Johns Hopkins, his research focused on cardiovascular imaging and population-based studies within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), applying advanced cardiac CT and MRI techniques as well as artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate structural and functional cardiac phenotypes. His work was focused on discovering novel risk markers for clinical and subclinical cardiovascular outcomes, with findings published in Radiology, JACC, Scientific Reports, etc.

Dr. Abdollahi currently serves as a peer reviewer for top-tier journals including JACC, Circulation, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, and JAHA. His long-term goal is to bridge clinical practice and quantitative research to advance precision cardiovascular care and improve health equity.