Dr. Khera is Director of the Program in Preventive Cardiology, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, and an Associate of the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. He also serves as the Associate Program Director for the Cardiology fellowship and as Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at University Hospital-St.Paul and Parkland Memorial Hospital. His research interests include the primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease, focusing on risk assessment and risk factor modification in those with premature and familial disease. His recent work has involved the role of inflammatory markers in risk assessment and in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease. Dr. Khera received his undegraduate degree in American History from the University of Pennsylvania, with magna cum laude honors. He obtained his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine where he served as class president and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by a Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, where he did a one-year research fellowship in the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center. He also completed his Masters degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He sees patients with a strong family history of coronary artery disease, premature coronary artery disease, or multiple cardiovascular risk factors.
