Biykem Bozkurt

Bellaire,United States

Dr. Biykem Bozkurt is the Senior Dean of Faculty, the Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine; Director of Winters Center of Heart Failure; Associate Director of Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX.

Dr. Bozkurt is the Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Heart Failure. She has been listed in Clarivate World’s Highly Cited Researchers (top 1% Web of Science) in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024.  She served as the President of the Heart Failure Society of America in 2019-2020, led the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure as the Chair in 2021, and is the Vice-Chair of the 2022 AHA/ACC Heart Failure Guidelines Writing Committee. Dr. Bozkurt actively participates in clinical and translational research; provides advanced heart failure patient care; presents at national and international scientific sessions; teaches and mentors trainees and faculty.