Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Medicine
·
2025 - Present
Medicine, Cardiology,
Medicine
Recent Scholarly Works
Beyond traditional risk scores: Proteomic prediction of heart failure in MASLD
Journal article American Journal of Preventive Cardiology · August 1, 2026 Full text CiteCardiovascular Science, Medicine, and Society: The Brave New World: The ACC Braunwald Lecture 2025.
Journal article J Am Coll Cardiol · April 21, 2026 Recent scientific and technological advances have dramatically expanded the possibilities in cardiovascular medicine. Landmark clinical trials have introduced transformative therapies for lipid disorders, heart failure, and obesity, offering clinicians pow ... Full text Link to item CiteExpanding clones, expanding aneurysms through macrophage-to-osteoclast differentiation.
Journal article J Clin Invest · April 15, 2026 Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are an age-related cause of sudden cardiac death and cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity with limited nonsurgical treatment options. In this issue of the JCI, Yonekawa et al. addressed the pathobiologic mechanisms of cl ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
1/2 Low dose colchicine in pAtients with peripheral artery DiseasE to assess residual vascular risk (LEADER-PAD)
ResearchFaculty Member · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2029Interrogating Mechanistic Effects of Clonal Hematopoiesis in Heart Failure
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2026 - 2029Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) in Exercise Responsiveness
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2024 - 2026View All Grants
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine ·
2017
M.D.
University of Arizona ·
2012
B.S.