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)

Using Polygenic Risk Scores to Evaluate Definitions of Self-Reported Sleep Phenotypes Across Cohorts.
(2026 Jul 21)
Sleep
Wyss AB, Brown M, Li X, Spitzer BW, Huang Z, Wang H, Saxena R, Gallo L, Qi Q, Tarraf W, Kaplan R, Lamar M, González HM, DeCarli C, Fornage M, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Taylor KD, Guo X, Wood AC, Liu PY, Heckbert SR, Sarnowski C, Bressler J, Morrison AC, Yu B, Lutsey PL, Isasi CR, Redline S, Sofer T
Association of Lacunes with Risk Factors, Cognition, and Atrophy: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
(2026 Jul 6)
medRxiv
Wang DH, Azhar F, Shamsudeen N, Gutierrez J, Charisis S, Brandigampala SR, Kern KC, Rashid T, Jensen P, Nasrallah I, Ware JB, Hiatt K, Tanley J, Bryan RN, Longstreth WT Jr, Launer L, Seshadri S, Hughes TM, Heckbert SR, Habes M
Advancing fair and explainable machine learning for neuroimaging dementia pattern classification in multi-racial and multi-ethnic populations.
(2026 Jun 26)
Nat Commun
Ho NH, Charisis S, Honnorat N, Brandigampala SR, Wang D, Heckbert SR, Fox PT, Martinez D, Wang DH, Hughes TM, Archer DB, Hohman TJ, Seshadri S, Davatzikos C, Habes M
Heart rate variability and heart rate fragmentation among shift workers: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Jun 24)
Chronobiol Int
Sowrin MS, Espinosa A, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Hulsegge G, Harding BN
Neighborhood-Level Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation and Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Jul 7)
J Am Heart Assoc 15(13): e045942
Essien UR, Harrington K, Alexandria SJ, Greenland P, Heckbert SR, Szklo M, Mujahid MS, Carnethon MR, Watson KE, Tang JJ, Kershaw KN
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