Farhaan Vahidy PhD, MPH, FAHA

Dr. Farhaan S. Vahidy is an Associate Professor Of Research in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for Health Data Science and Analytics at Houston Methodist. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at McGovern Medical School and the Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease at UTHealth. He leads the Data Management and Analysis Core and the Division for Population Health and Health Services Research of the Stroke Institute. He has faculty appointments with the Centers for Evidence-Based Medicine and the Biostatistics/Epidemiology Research Design Core of UTHealth's Center for Clinical and Translational Science. He chairs the data governance committee for the Memorial Hermann integrated system of comprehensive stroke care. His research interests are epidemiology and prevention of cerebrovascular disease and the impact of healthcare systems on patient-centered outcomes. He is independently funded to study the regionalization of care for brain hemorrhage patients across the state of Texas. He also has developed a new population health post-doctoral program in stroke and cerebrovascular disease. He co-directs coursework in advanced analytics and research design at UTHealth Houston, serves on national stroke research education and training committees, and provides mentorship to post-doctoral fellows, stroke fellows, and clinical faculty.