Irbaz Hameed, MD, PhD

Irbaz Hameed, MD, is an integrated cardiothoracic surgery resident at Yale and a Ph.D. candidate in Investigative Medicine - Neurocardiology at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Sestan Lab). He received his early education in various West African countries and earned his medical degree from Southeast University, China. He subsequently completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Hameed has presented at several national and international conferences and authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications, including book chapters and high-impact articles in Nature, The Lancet, JAMA, European Heart Journal, Circulation, and JACC. He is the recipient of multiple awards and serves in various editorial roles, including associate editor, guest editor, editorial board member and reviewer for multiple clinical and basic/translational science journals in cardiovascular medicine. His translational research is focused on neurocardiology, with a particular emphasis on the heart-brain axis and organ recovery after warm ischemia, utilizing single-cell and spatial multi-omics profiling technologies in live porcine models. His clinical research is centered on cardiac surgical outcomes, as well as the methodologies of randomized controlled trials, observational studies, and meta-analyses.

Dr. Hameed is currently the vice-president of the North American Thoracic Surgery Residents’ Association and holds positions in various workforces and councils within the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He is also the past president of the Yale Residents’ and Fellows’ Senate.