Katya Ravid, DSc, Elected American Heart Association Fellow

Katya Ravid, DSc, has been elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) by the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS). Conferred by one of the world’s preeminent organizations of cardiovascular and stroke professionals, the FAHA is recognition “for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the areas of scholarship, practice and/or education, and volunteer service within the AHA/ASA.”

Ravid is the Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine, a professor of biochemistry, biology, health sciences at the School, and a Fulbright Research Scholar. She is the founding and current director of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, and BU Interdisicplinary Biomedical Research Office.

With more than 170 publications, Ravid’s research and contributions in the interdisciplinary field of hemato-vascular biology, with focus on the megakaryocyte/platelet lineage, are recognized nationally and internationally through several awards, including an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award and being named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.