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Robert Yeh

Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology | Director

Dr. Robert W. Yeh is the Director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Section Chief of Interventional Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Katz Silver Family Professor of Medicine in the Field of Outcomes Research in Cardiology at Harvard Medical School. He earned an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MBA from Oxford University Business School, and an MSc from the London School of Economics/Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, completing residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, cardiology fellowship at University of California, San Francisco and interventional fellowship back at MGH. His research is focuses on developing and applying innovative methods to understand the effects of cardiovascular interventions and policies on individual and population health. Dr. Yeh has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and was awarded the American Heart Association’s Joseph Vita Award in 2020 for work “that has had a transformative impact on cardiovascular research”. He serves as the Principal Investigator of the EXTEND Study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which evaluates the use of routinely collected data to support pragmatically-designed randomized clinical trials and novel observational methods for cardiovascular devices. He is also the national PI for the multicenter AGENT-IDE trial, the first randomized clinical trial evaluating coronary drug-coated balloons in the United States. He is a standing member of the FDA’s Circulatory Devices Advisory Panel.