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)

Plant-based dietary patterns are associated with slower epigenetic aging.
(2026 Mar 20)
Aging (Albany NY) 18(1): 138-158
Kim H, Castellani CA, Ma J, Wood AC, Ting A, Grams ME, Yu B, Ruggles K, Floyd JS, Arking DE, Rebholz CM

CARDIAC-FM: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Using ECG and Cardiac MRI.
(2026 Mar 18)
medRxiv
Li F, Li S, Qian Y, Chen B, Brody JA, Yogeswaran V, Wiggins KL, Sitlani CM, Bis JC, Shojaie A, Longstreth WT, Psaty BM, Tison GH, Du S, Floyd JS, Ye T

Plasma Proteins Associated With Psychosocial Factors and Heart Disease: The Jackson Heart Study.
(2026 Mar 26)
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
O'Brien SN, Gillman MG, Green MD, Cruz DE, Floyd JS, Hankinson S, Katz DH, Liu X, Odden MC, Psaty BM, Reiner AP, Rotter JII, Rich SSS, Gerszten RE, Shah A, Sims M, Tahir UA, Tinker LF, Wood AC, Yu B, Zannas AS, Raffield L, Glover L

Proteomic pathways mediating low socioeconomic status and cardiovascular events in older adults in CHS and ARIC.
(2026 Mar 13)
Atherosclerosis 415(): 120705
Odden MC, Liu X, Shah AM, Yang Y, Lamberson V, Brody JA, Sitlani CM, Huber M, Kalani R, Shojaie A, Raffield LM, Glover L, Palta P, Kucharska-Newton AM, Psaty BM, Floyd JS

A Systematic Process for Assessing Fitness-for-Purpose of Health Outcomes for Computable Phenotyping With Electronic Health Record Data.
(2026 Mar)
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 35(3): e70346
Gatto NM, Cronkite DJ, Wartko PD, Ball R, Carrell DS, Eniafe R, Desai R, Floyd JS, Lee T, Nelson JC, Shebl FM, Schoeplein R, Toh S, Zhang M, Dublin S, Hernández-Muñoz JJ

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