Faculty

Susan R Heckbert

Professor, Epidemiology

206-221-7775

Education

MD Case Western Reserve University, 1981
PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1990

Contact

206-221-7775

Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
Box 358085
1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1360
Seattle, WA 98101
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Research Interests

Dr. Heckbert's main research interests are in clinical epidemiology, with emphasis on cardiovascular disease. Her research focuses on cardiac arrhythmias, aging, alterations in brain structure and function, medication effects and drug safety, and genetic associations with cardiovascular disease.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

AI-enabled left atrial volumetry in coronary artery calcium scans (AI-CAC(TM)) predicts atrial fibrillation as early as one year, improves CHARGE-AF, and outperforms NT-proBNP: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
(2024 Apr 23)
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr
Naghavi M, Yankelevitz D, Reeves AP, Budoff MJ, Li D, Atlas K, Zhang C, Atlas TL, Lirette S, Wasserthal J, Roy SK, Henschke C, Wong ND, Defilippi C, Heckbert SR, Greenland P

Time-to-Event Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Cardiovascular Disease in People With Type 2 Diabetes.
(2024 Apr 23)
Diabetes Care
Kwak SH, Hernandez-Cancela RB, DiCorpo DA, Condon DE, Merino J, Wu P, Brody JA, Yao J, Guo X, Ahmadizar F, Meyer M, Sincan M, Mercader JM, Lee S, Haessler J, Vy HMT, Lin Z, Armstrong ND, Gu S, Tsao NL, Lange LA, Wang N, Wiggins KL, Trompet S, Liu S, Loos RJF, Judy R, Schroeder PH, Hasbani NR, Bos MM, Morrison AC, Jackson RD, Reiner AP, Manson JE, Chaudhary NS, Carmichael LK, Chen YI, Taylor KD, Ghanbari M, van Meurs J, Pitsillides AN, Psaty BM, Noordam R, Do R, Park KS, Jukema JW, Kavousi M, Correa A, Rich SS, Damrauer SM, Hajek C, Cho NH, Irvin MR, Pankow JS, Nadkarni GN, Sladek R, Goodarzi MO, Florez JC, Chasman DI, Heckbert SR, Kooperberg C, Dupuis J, Malhotra R, de Vries PS, Liu CT, Rotter JI, Meigs JB, Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium

Deep phenotyping of dementia in a multi-ethnic cardiovascular cohort: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
(2024)
PLoS One 19(4): e0298952
Ostovaneh MR, Hughes TM, Wu CO, McClelland RL, Casanova R, Bluemke DA, Tracy RP, Shea S, Heckbert SR, Lima JAC, Ambale-Venkatesh B

Subclinical vascular composites predict clinical cardiovascular disease, stroke, and dementia: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
(2024 Mar 15)
Atherosclerosis 392(): 117521
Hughes TM, Tanley J, Chen H, Schaich CL, Yeboah J, Espeland MA, Lima JAC, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Michos ED, Ding J, Hayden K, Casanova R, Craft S, Rapp SR, Luchsinger JA, Fitzpatrick AL, Heckbert SR, Post WS, Burke GL

MRI Investigation of the Association of Left Atrial and Left Atrial Appendage Hemodynamics with Silent Brain Infarction.
(2024 Mar 15)
J Magn Reson Imaging
Pradella M, Baraboo JJ, Prabhakaran S, Zhao L, Hijaz T, McComb EN, Naidich MJ, Heckbert SR, Nasrallah IM, Bryan RN, Passman RS, Markl M, Greenland P

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