Keynote Address

Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc is Vice-Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. He concomitantly serves as Chief of Cardiology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He holds the Magerstadt Endowed Professor of Medicine Chair and also holds an appointment as Professor of Medical Social Sciences.

Yancy is a native of Louisiana and earned a B.S. degree, (4.0, Honors), from Southern University; and an M.D. degree, (Alpha Omega Alpha), from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. He completed his fellowship in cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he received research training in the Human Physiology Laboratories of Blomqvist and Mitchell and advanced heart failure and heart transplant training from Maria T. Olivari (1990). He received his initial faculty appointment in 1989 and held a position on the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center for 17 years where he ascended to the rank of Professor of Medicine. Concurrently he was holder of the Carl Westcott Distinguished Chair in Medical Research, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Medical Director of the Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Program. In 2006 he was named Director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Dallas. In 2010, he completed a Master’s of Science in Medical Management (Beta Gamma Sigma) at the University of Texas- Dallas, School of Business and Management.

Dr. Yancy’s research interests are heart failure, clinical guideline generation, outcomes sciences, personalized medicine, and health care disparities. He is extensively published with well over 600 peer reviewed publications, an H-index of > 100 and annual recognition as one of the most highly cited scientific authors worldwide. Dr. Yancy is Deputy Editor, JAMA Cardiology, and Senior Section Editor (Heart Failure), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). He serves on the editorial boards for Circulation, Circulation Heart Failure, the American Heart Journal, and JACC Heart Failure.

Yancy is board certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in cardiovascular disease. He is a Master of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), a Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America and a Fellow (Hon.) of the American Society of Preventive Cardiology. He has served on innumerable clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements writing committees and served as Chair, ACC/AHA Heart Failure Clinical Practice Guideline Writing Committee, 2011 – 2020. He is immediate past co-chair of the ACC Diversity & Inclusion Taskforce. Dr. Yancy is a former president of the AHA (2009–2010); recipient of the Gold Heart Award (2014); the James Herrick Medal (2020) for distinguished achievement in clinical cardiovascular medicine; and the AHA Chairman’s Award for meritorious service (2021). He has completed extensive Government service for the National Institutes of Health, (incl. service on the Advisory Committee to the Director for the NIH), the Food and Drug Administration, (incl. Chair of the Cardiovascular Device Panel), and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (as a founding member of the Methodology Committee).

Dr. Yancy is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (2016) and the American Association of Physicians (2020). In 2018, he was appointed to the Minority Health Affairs Subcommittee, Department of Health and Human Services. Also in 2018, Dr. Yancy received two lifetime achievement awards for clinical research from WomenHeart® and for research and leadership in Diversity from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation®. In 2019, he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2021, he received the Mihai Gheorghiade Award for Mentorship and the Gary Mecklenburg Distinguished Physician Award (both Northwestern awards) for exemplary professionalism and humanism.