Faculty

Susan R Heckbert

Professor Emeritus, 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 Areas

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)

Midlife exposure to neighborhood greenness and later-life cognitive decline: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Mar 13)
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
Besser LM, Chang LC, Evenson KR, Galvin JE, Heckbert SR, Hirsch JA, James P, Jimenez MP, Kaufman J, Lockhart SN, Mitsova D, Moore KA, Sachs BC, Hughes T, Roux AVD
Derivation of machine learning brain aging biomarkers for a set of forty thousand functional connectomes.
(2026 Mar 5)
Brain Res Bull 237(): 111815
Honnorat N, Wang D, Ho NH, Martinez D, Brandigampala SR, Heckbert SR, Bahrami M, Himali JJ, DeCarli C, Beiser A, Hughes TM, Seshadri S, Habes M
Association of High Cardiovascular Disease Risk Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Incident Atrial Fibrillation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Mar 5)
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Xu J, Kwon Y, Esmaeili N, Sands SA, Hajipour M, Vena D, Heckbert SR, Soliman EZ, Wellman A, Michos ED, Gottlieb DJ, Redline S, Azarbarzin A
Plasma and neuroimaging biomarkers of small vessel disease and Alzheimer's disease in a diverse cohort: MESA.
(2026 Feb)
Alzheimers Dement 22(2): e71131
Lockhart SN, Sutphen CL, Tanley J, Gonzalez-Ortiz F, Kac PR, Habes M, Heckbert SR, Ashton NJ, Mielke MM, Koeppe R, Rudolph MD, Sai KKS, Whitlow CT, Hiatt KD, Craft S, Register TC, Hayden KM, Rapp SR, Sachs BC, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Karikari TK, Hughes TM
Association of self-rated health and risk of incident atrial fibrillation: Findings from three cohorts.
(2026 Feb)
Am J Prev Cardiol 25(): 101378
Garg PK, Alam A, Bhatia HS, Horn J, Malmo V, Loennechen JP, Mu S, Foraker R, Selvin E, Janszky I, Heckbert SR, Alonso A
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