Yacob Tedla, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine within the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Tedla completed his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology from Northwestern University. He worked as a Research Assistant Professor between 2017 and 2020 at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and was recruited to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as an Assistant Professor in 2020.
His research interest focuses on vascular structural and functional abnormalities and their effect on cardiovascular events. He also conducts research to understand the determinants of racial disparities in cardiovascular diseases. His recent works identified new risk factors for arterial stiffness progression and blood pressure variability and the impact of different blood pressure components on cardiovascular events.
Dr. Tedla is currently funded by the National Institute of Health (K01 grant) to evaluate provider compliance to hypertension treatment guidelines and patients' blood pressure trajectory and by the BMS/Pfizer alliance to explore racial disparity in the utilization of anticoagulants and the risk of stroke and major bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation. To facilitate his research, Dr. Tedla collaborates with an interdisciplinary team, and he uses data from multi-center epidemiologic cohort studies and electronic health records to conduct his research, leveraging robust epidemiologic methods and bioinformatics techniques. He presented his research findings at national and international academic conferences and is an active reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. His research career goal is to develop a collaborative research program to promote cardiovascular health and reduce disparities in cardiovascular diseases.