Dr. Biykem Bozkurt is Senior Dean of Faculty, the Mary and Gordon Cain Chair, and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She also directs the Winters Center for Heart Failure and serves as Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor.

Dr. Bozkurt is internationally recognized for her leadership in heart failure. She served as President of the Heart Failure Society of America from 2019 to 2020, chaired the 2021 Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure, and was Vice Chair of the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Heart Failure Guideline. She is Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Heart Failure. Alongside her clinical research, she cares for patients with heart failure and is deeply committed to teaching and mentoring trainees and faculty.

Her honours include the Heart Failure Society of America’s Distinguished Leadership Award and the American College of Cardiology’s Bahr Award of Excellence (both 2024), the ACC Distinguished Fellow Award (2025), and the ACC Gifted Educator and Proctor Harvey Young Teacher awards. She has been named to Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers, recognizing the top 1% of researchers worldwide, five times.

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