Faculty

James Floyd

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Medicine - General Internal Medicine

206-221-7775

Education

MD Medicine (MD), Duke University, 2005
BS Chemistry, Duke University, 2000
MS Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2011

Contact

206-221-7775

Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1360
Seattle, WA 98101

Research Interests

Cardiovascular epidemiology
Drug safety
Pharmacogenomics
Methods for using electronic health data in epidemiologic studies
Treatment of type 2 diabetes
Atrial fibrillation
Coronary heart disease
Proteomics

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Associations of Immune Cell Subsets With Coronary Artery Calcium Incidence and Progression in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2025 Sep 19)
J Am Heart Assoc
Patel RD, Buzkova P, Huber S, Landay A, Budoff M, Bis JC, Olson N, Rich S, Heckbert SR, Manichaikul A, Floyd J, Tracy RP, Psaty BM, Doyle MF, Sitlani CM, Delaney JAC, Fohner AE, Feinstein MJ

SECTM1 Regulates Monocyte Levels and Is Associated With Incident Coronary Heart Disease.
(2025 Sep 16)
JACC Basic Transl Sci 10(10): 101378
Tahir UA, Cruz D, Shen D, Tiwari G, Liu J, Huber M, Chan C, Deng S, Benson MD, Robbins J, Chen ZZ, Farrell L, Ekunwe L, Hall M, Psaty BM, Floyd JS, Asnani A, Swirski FK, Wilson JG, Gerszten RE

Multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores for the prediction of type 2 diabetes and complications in diverse ancestries.
(2025 Jul 23)
medRxiv
Huerta-Chagoya A, Kim J, Mandla R, Lu Y, Suzuki K, Petty LE, Ng HK, Choi J, Lee S, Rout M, Lin K, Adair LS, Adeyemo A, Ahsan H, Akiyama M, An P, Anand SS, Becker DM, Bertoni AG, Bian Z, Bielak LF, Blangero J, Boehnke M, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Bragg F, Brody JA, Buchanan TA, Cade BE, Chai JF, Chambers JC, Chandak GR, Chang LC, Chang KM, Chee ML, Chen CH, Chen YT, Chen Z, Chen YI, Chen J, Chen G, Chen SH, Chen WM, Cheng CY, Cho YS, Choi HS, Chuang LM, Cruz M, Cushman M, Das SK, DeFronzo RA, deSilva HJ, Dimitrov L, Doumatey AP, Du S, Duan Q, Duggirala R, Emery LS, Engert JC, Evans DS, Evans MK, Finer S, Florez JC, Floyd JS, Fornage M, Frankel EG, Freedman BI, García-García L, Genter P, Gerstein HC, Goodarzi MO, Gordon-Larsen P, Graff M, Gross M, Guo Y, Guo X, Hai Y, Hanis CL, Hayes M, Horikoshi M, Howard AG, Hsu S, Hsueh W, Huang W, Huang M, Hung YJ, Hwang MY, Hwu CM, Ichihara S, Igase M, Ipp E, Islam MT, Isono M, Jang HM, Jasmine F, Jonas JB, Joo YY, Kabagambe E, Kadowaki T, Kamatani Y, Kandeel FR, Kardia SLR, Karlson EW, Kasturiratne A, Kato N, Katsuya T, Kaur V, Kawaguchi T, Keaton JM, Kho AN, Khor CC, Kibriya M, Kim BJ, Koh WP, Kohara K, Kooner JS, Kooperberg C, Kreienkamp RJ, Lamri A, Lange LA, Lee NR, Lee MS, Lee JJ, Lehman DM, Li L, Li Y, Lim VJ, Liu J, Liu Y, Liu S, Long J, Louie T, Luo X, Lv J, Lynch JA, Maeda S, Mahajan A, Maruthur NM, Matsuda F, McCarthy MI, McKean-Cowdin R, Meigs JB, Millwood IY, Mohlke KL, Motala AA, Nadkarni GN, Nadler JL, Nakatochi M, Nalls MA, Nayak U, Nicolas A, North KE, Nousome D, Okada Y, Pan I, Pankow JS, Paré G, Park J, Park KS, Parra EJ, Patel SR, Pereira MA, Peyser PA, Pirie FJ, Preuss M, Province MA, Psaty BM, Raffel LJ, Raffield LM, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Redline S, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Rohde R, Roll K, Roshani R, Rotimi CN, Sabanayagam C, Saleheen D, Sandow K, Schurmann C, Shahriar M, Shaw DM, Sheu WH, Shi J, Shu XO, Shuey MM, Siddiqui MK, Smith JA, Sofer T, Spracklen CN, Stilp AM, Sun M, Tabara Y, Tai ES, Tajuddin SM, Takahashi A, Takeuchi F, Tan J, Taylor KD, Taylor K, Thameem F, Tong L, Tsai FJ, Tsao PS, Udler MS, Valladares-Salgado A, van Heel DA, vanDam RM, Varma R, Vora M, Wacher-Rodarte N, Wang YX, Wheeler E, Whitsel EA, Wickremasinghe AR, Wojcik GL, Wong TY, Wu JY, Xiang YB, Xiang AH, Yajnik CS, Yamamoto K, Yamauchi T, Yanek LR, Yao J, Yokota M, Yu C, Yuan JM, Yusuf S, Zeggini E, Zhang L, Zhang W, Zheng W, Zonderman AB, ENSA Genomics Consortium, Genes & Health Research Team, VA Million Veteran Program, Aguilar-Salinas CA, González-Villalpando C, Haiman CA, Kim YJ, Kwak SH, Leong A, Loos RJF, Moreno-Estrada A, Morris AP, Orozco L, Rotter JI, Sanghera D, Tusie-Luna T, Voight BF, Vujkovic M, Walters RG, Ge T, Manning AK, Loh M, Below JE, Sim X, Mercader JM, Ng MCY, D-PRISM Consortium

Proteomics and the Risk of Incident Embolic and Thrombotic Stroke.
(2025 Aug 4)
Ann Neurol
Johansen MC, Chen J, Walker KA, Wang Z, Wang W, Chen LY, Kalani R, Floyd J, Fornage M, Pike JR, Gottesman RF, Coresh J

Association of liver related biomarkers with incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), a population-based cohort study.
(2025 Jul 30)
BMC Gastroenterol 25(1): 543
Trejo MJ, Floyd JS, Massera D, Daviglus M, Garcia-Bedoya O, Cai J, Talavera GA, Tamayo-Murillo DE, Labovitz D, Kaplan R

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