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Professor and Vice Chair for Education of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. El Khoudary is a Professor and Vice Chair for Education of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. She is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with main scientific research area focusing on cardiovascular epidemiology of the menopause transition. Dr. El Khoudary has evaluated associations and mechanisms linking menopause, sex hormone levels, lipids, fat deposition and subclinical measures of atherosclerosis in midlife women. She has received funding from NIA, NHLBI and AHA to support her research work including a current ancillary study to the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), SWAN HDL, assessing comprehensively novel metrics of HDL composition and function over the menopause transition, and 3 completed projects on heart fat and lipoproteins. Dr. El Khoudary has published numerous manuscripts, review papers and delivered presentations in various national and international scientific meetings. She chaired the first scientific statement on menopause and CVD, which was published in Circulation in 2020. Dr. El Khoudary has received several honors and awards including the Fulbright scholarship, Trudy Bush Fellowship for Cardiovascular Research in Women’s Health, New Investigator Award from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) 2012, best paper of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2015, the Early Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society 2016, and was a poster award winner in the 2019 NAMS annual meeting. Dr. El Khoudary is an active member of the American Heart Association, the North American Menopause Society, and the European Menopause and Andropause Society. She served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Academy of Cardiology 2018, chaired the poster judging committee for NAMS 2017 meeting, and led the NAMS abstract review committee in 2018. She is a current Board of Trustees member of NAMS. Dr. El Khoudary is an elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) on the Epi-council. She is an active grant reviewer for NIH and AHA, and ad-hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals including Circulation, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Menopause, and Maturitas. Dr. El Khoudary is an Associate Editor of the American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice, a member of the editorial boards of the Journal Menopause and the Journal of the American Heart Association, and a guest editor of Maturitas. Within the Department of Epidemiology, Dr. El Khoudary has taught Epidemiological methods courses since 2012 for both doctoral and masters’ level students. She has mentored multiple MPH, MSc, and PhD students as well as junior faculty, and is actively involved in many of the Department of Epidemiology students training plans by serving on their dissertation and thesis committees.
Thursday, May 4, 2023
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM