Full Name
Clyde W. Yancy
Professional Designations
MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA
Job Title
Chief, Division of Cardiology and Vice Dean, Health Equity
Company
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Dr. Clyde W. Yancy is Vice Dean of Healthy Equity, Magerstadt Endowed Professor, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Chief of Cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He concomitantly serves as associate director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Corporation.
Yancy is a native of Louisiana, where he earned his bachelor’s degree at Southern University (GPA 4.0) in Baton Rouge and medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans (Alpha Omega Alpha). He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. After completing his fellowship in clinical cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, he then pursued research training in the human physiology laboratories of Drs. Gunnar Blomqvist and Jere Mitchell, supported SLS1 (NASA), and advanced heart failure and heart transplant training from Dr. Maria-Teresa Olivari. He received his initial faculty appointment in 1989 and held a position on the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, for 17 years. While at UT Southwestern he held the Carl Westcott Distinguished Chair in Medical Research, was Associate Dean for clinical affairs, and served as medical director of the Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Program. In 2006, Yancy was named director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Dallas. In 2010, he received a master’s degree in healthcare management at The University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management (Beta Gamma Sigma).
Yancy’s research interests include heart failure, clinical guideline generation, outcomes sciences, cardiovascular disease prevention, personalized medicine, and health equity. He is extensively published, with more than 750 peer-reviewed publications, (> 240,653 citations and an h-index of 147 per Google Scholar), and annual recognition (2015- 2025), as one of the most highly cited scientific authors worldwide (top 1% and ranked in the top 10 [Cardiology]). Yancy is Senior Editorial Advisor for JAMA Cardiology and senior section editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Heart Failure. He also serves on the editorial boards for Circulation, Circulation: Heart Failure, the American Heart Journal and JACC: Heart Failure.
Board certified in internal medicine, with a subspecialty in cardiovascular disease, Yancy holds the designations of Master of the American College of Cardiology (MACC), Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP), Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America (FHFSA), and Honorary Fellowships in the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.
Through his career, Yancy has led major randomized controlled trials in heart failure; served on innumerable AHA/ACC clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements writing committees and notably served as chair of the ACC/AHA Heart Failure Clinical Practice Guideline Writing Committee, 2011 - 2020. Yancy is the recipient of two AHA Gold Heart Awards, (2014 & 2022), the 2020 AHA James Herrick Award for distinguished achievement in clinical cardiovascular medicine and the 2021 AHA Chairman’s Award. He is former president of the AHA, (2009 – 2010), and continues to hold innumerable AHA senior leadership roles. He has completed extensive government service for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, (PCORI), for which he served on the founding Methodology Committee setting standards for PCORI and concomitantly supported the launch of the Institute.
Yancy is an elected member of the Association of University Cardiologists (2012), National Academy of Medicine (2016), and the American Association of Physicians (2020). In 2018, he received two lifetime achievement awards: one for clinical research from WomenHeart® and one for Research and Leadership in Diversity from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. In 2019, he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Tulane University School of Medicine. In 2021, he received the Northwestern Medicine Mihai Gheorghiade Award for Mentorship and the Gary Mecklenburg Distinguished Physician Award for exemplary Professionalism and Humanism. In 2022, he received the “Heart of Gold” award at the 2022 AHA heart Ball in Chicago. Also in 2022, he received the Heart Failure Society of America Distinguished Leadership Award for Education and Mentorship. In 2023 he received the New York Academy of Medicine John Stearns Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Clinical Practice. And in 2024, he was humbled by peer recognition from the Cook County Medical Society, (Chicago, IL), as a “Living Legacy”.
His hobbies include fitness training, cycling, golf, and jazz.
Yancy is a native of Louisiana, where he earned his bachelor’s degree at Southern University (GPA 4.0) in Baton Rouge and medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans (Alpha Omega Alpha). He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. After completing his fellowship in clinical cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, he then pursued research training in the human physiology laboratories of Drs. Gunnar Blomqvist and Jere Mitchell, supported SLS1 (NASA), and advanced heart failure and heart transplant training from Dr. Maria-Teresa Olivari. He received his initial faculty appointment in 1989 and held a position on the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, for 17 years. While at UT Southwestern he held the Carl Westcott Distinguished Chair in Medical Research, was Associate Dean for clinical affairs, and served as medical director of the Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Program. In 2006, Yancy was named director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Dallas. In 2010, he received a master’s degree in healthcare management at The University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management (Beta Gamma Sigma).
Yancy’s research interests include heart failure, clinical guideline generation, outcomes sciences, cardiovascular disease prevention, personalized medicine, and health equity. He is extensively published, with more than 750 peer-reviewed publications, (> 240,653 citations and an h-index of 147 per Google Scholar), and annual recognition (2015- 2025), as one of the most highly cited scientific authors worldwide (top 1% and ranked in the top 10 [Cardiology]). Yancy is Senior Editorial Advisor for JAMA Cardiology and senior section editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Heart Failure. He also serves on the editorial boards for Circulation, Circulation: Heart Failure, the American Heart Journal and JACC: Heart Failure.
Board certified in internal medicine, with a subspecialty in cardiovascular disease, Yancy holds the designations of Master of the American College of Cardiology (MACC), Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP), Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America (FHFSA), and Honorary Fellowships in the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.
Through his career, Yancy has led major randomized controlled trials in heart failure; served on innumerable AHA/ACC clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements writing committees and notably served as chair of the ACC/AHA Heart Failure Clinical Practice Guideline Writing Committee, 2011 - 2020. Yancy is the recipient of two AHA Gold Heart Awards, (2014 & 2022), the 2020 AHA James Herrick Award for distinguished achievement in clinical cardiovascular medicine and the 2021 AHA Chairman’s Award. He is former president of the AHA, (2009 – 2010), and continues to hold innumerable AHA senior leadership roles. He has completed extensive government service for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, (PCORI), for which he served on the founding Methodology Committee setting standards for PCORI and concomitantly supported the launch of the Institute.
Yancy is an elected member of the Association of University Cardiologists (2012), National Academy of Medicine (2016), and the American Association of Physicians (2020). In 2018, he received two lifetime achievement awards: one for clinical research from WomenHeart® and one for Research and Leadership in Diversity from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. In 2019, he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Tulane University School of Medicine. In 2021, he received the Northwestern Medicine Mihai Gheorghiade Award for Mentorship and the Gary Mecklenburg Distinguished Physician Award for exemplary Professionalism and Humanism. In 2022, he received the “Heart of Gold” award at the 2022 AHA heart Ball in Chicago. Also in 2022, he received the Heart Failure Society of America Distinguished Leadership Award for Education and Mentorship. In 2023 he received the New York Academy of Medicine John Stearns Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Clinical Practice. And in 2024, he was humbled by peer recognition from the Cook County Medical Society, (Chicago, IL), as a “Living Legacy”.
His hobbies include fitness training, cycling, golf, and jazz.
