Dr Amit Khera, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, MASPC

Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief of Cardiology, Faculty Development
Director, Preventive Cardiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

Dr. Khera is Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas where he serves as Director of Preventive Cardiology, Associate Chief of Cardiology for Faculty Development, Co-Director of the Familial Hypercholesterolemia Clinic, and holder of the Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Hypertension and Heart Disease. His clinical and 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.

Dr. Khera received his undergraduate degree in American History from the University of Pennsylvania. 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, Harvard Medical School, followed by a Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. He also completed his Masters degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

He is Past President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, Past President of the Dallas and SouthWest Region Boards of the AHA and is currently Chair of the AHA Scientific Sessions Planning Committee.  He was named Master of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology in 2023.  Dr. Khera is an Associate Editor for Circulation and the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology.  He has contributed over 200 publications in the field of preventive cardiology and has been named Best Doctor in Dallas and Texas SuperDoctor every year since 2014.