PITTSBURGH, PA--Bobby V. Khan, MD, PhD, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation on November 4. Dr. Khan succeeds Norman S. Abramson, MD, FACEP, FCCM, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine, who served as Board Chair since 2011. Dr. Khan previously served as Board Chair from 2008-2011.
Dr. Khan is a cardiologist and clinical investigator who serves as Director of the Atlanta Vascular Research Foundation, Executive Director of Carmel Biosciences, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in highly regarded scientific journals.
In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Research Chair to work at the University of Prince Edward Island with Dr. Tarek Saleh, Chairman of Biomedical Sciences, and his research group. Dr. Khan’s Fulbright scholarship allowed him to come to Canada on several occasions over the past five years. His work has been extremely productive and has resulted in the production of multiple research manuscripts and the submission of patents on developed intellectual property.
Dr. Khan has served as the principal investigator for several clinical trials. He has obtained research support from the National Institutes of Health and private companies. He has served on several planning committees for the scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He is the holder of several patents in the area of treatment for atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.
Dr. Khan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, and a Doctor of Medicine (with honors) and a Doctor of Philosophy in pharmacology from the University of Tennessee. His postgraduate education included a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a cardiology fellowship at Emory University. He has received multiple awards including “Outstanding Predoctoral Fellowship Award” and Outstanding Research Award.”