Amit Khera MD MSc, FACC, FAHA, FASPC

Summary

• I am a Professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern, where I serve as Clinical Chief of Cardiology, Director of Preventive Cardiology, and Co Director of the Familial Hypercholesterolemia Clinic. I also hold the Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Hypertension and Heart Disease and am a Professor of Epidemiology at the O’Donnell School of Public Health. My work focuses on preventing coronary artery disease, especially in those with premature or familial risk.
  I studied American History at the University of Pennsylvania, earned my MD at Baylor College of Medicine, completed Internal Medicine training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and my Cardiology fellowship at UT Southwestern. I also received a master’s in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
  I founded the UT Southwestern Preventive Cardiology program in 2004 and have been recognized as a Best Doctor in Dallas and Texas SuperDoctor annually since 2014. I am a past president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, serve as an Associate Editor for Circulation and the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. I am funded by the NIH to study Familial Hypercholesterolemia.