Ashkan Abdollahi, MD

Dr. Ashkan Abdollahi is a resident physician in the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program. He received his MD from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, where he developed an early interest in cardiovascular medicine and quantitative imaging research. He then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Cardiovascular Imaging Lab before beginning his residency training at Yale.

At Johns Hopkins, his research focused on cardiovascular imaging and population-based studies within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), where he used advanced cardiac CT and MRI techniques together with artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate structural and functional cardiac phenotypes. He worked to identify novel risk markers for clinical and subclinical cardiovascular outcomes, with findings published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging, and Radiology.

Dr. Abdollahi is a peer reviewer for Circulation, JACC, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging, JAHA, and JACC: Advances. His long-term goal is to bridge clinical practice and quantitative research to advance precision cardiovascular care and improve health equity.