{{short description|American cardiologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Clyde Warren Yancy | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|01|02}} | workplaces = Parkland Memorial Hospital <br> Southwestern Medical Center <br> Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | alma_mater = Southern University <br> Tulane University Medical School }}
'''Clyde Warren Yancy''' (born January 2, 1958) is an American cardiologist and the Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/news/people/faculty/c-yancy.html |title=Clyde W. Yancy |publisher=northwestern.edu |access-date=April 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcori.org/people/clyde-yancy-md-msc |title=Clyde Yancy |date=21 July 2014 |publisher=pcori.org |access-date=April 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdedge.com/ecardiologynews/article/145669/cad-atherosclerosis/dr-clyde-yancy-cantos-wows-opens-new-therapeutic|title = Dr. Clyde Yancy: CANTOS wows, opens new therapeutic avenues}}</ref> He has previously served as the Past President of the American Heart Association. His research considers heart failure, heart transplantation and ways to prevent heart failure. He is Vice Dean of Health Equity.<ref>https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/health-equity/about/vice-deans-message.html</ref>
== Early life and education == Yancy was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Hilda Jones and Clyde Yancy Senior.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dr. Clyde Yancy's Biography|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dr-clyde-yancy-40|access-date=2020-08-01|website=The HistoryMakers|language=en}}</ref> When he was a child, his parents moved to Scotlandville, where his mother worked as a teacher.<ref name=":0" /> Yancy joined the Eagle Scouts as a teenager and played the saxophone in a marching band.<ref name=":0" /> Throughout his time at high school, Yancy attended the laboratory classes at Southern University. He eventually attended that same university for his bachelor's degree, where he graduated with a 4.0 GPA.<ref name=":0" /> He awarded early acceptance at the Tulane University School of Medicine, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. He graduated with his medical degree in 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Clyde Yancy - Guest Profile|url=https://www.thedrpatshow.com//guest/dr-clyde-yancy,5152.html|access-date=2020-08-01|website=www.thedrpatshow.com|language=en}}</ref> Yancy completed his medical residency and internship at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Texas. In 1989 Yancy moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as a Fellow in Cardiology in 1989.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Faculty Profile|url=https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=21219|access-date=2020-08-01|website=www.feinberg.northwestern.edu|language=en}}</ref>
== Research and career == In 1989 Yancy joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he eventually became the Carl H. Westcott Distinguished Chair in Medical Research.<ref name=":0" /> Yancy first became aware of health disparities during the mid-nineties, when he realised that African American patients presented with more advanced disease at younger ages.<ref name=":0" /> Yancy has extensively studied disparities in cardiovascular disease.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Butterfield|first=Stacey|title=Understanding heart failure in African Americans|url=https://acphospitalist.org/archives/2019/11/understanding-heart-failure-in-african-americans.htm|access-date=2020-08-17|website=acphospitalist.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Yancy|first=Clyde W.|date=2018-08-01|title=Addressing Cardiovascular Disease Disparities—Are We Getting Closer to the Truth?|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2684504|journal=JAMA Cardiology|language=en|volume=3|issue=8|pages=748|doi=10.1001/jamacardio.2018.1510|pmid=29898216|s2cid=49186005|issn=2380-6583|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 2006 Yancy moved to the Baylor University Medical Center, where he was made the medical director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Clyde Yancy's move to Baylor|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/789210|access-date=2020-08-01|website=Medscape}}</ref> Yancy was appointed Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faculty Profile: Clyde Yancy, MD Magerstadt Professor and Chief, Division of Medicine-Cardiology: Research: Feinberg School of Medicine: Northwestern University|url=https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/news/people/faculty/c-yancy.html|access-date=2020-08-01|website=www.feinberg.northwestern.edu}}</ref>
During the COVID-19 pandemic Yancy investigated the reasons that Black and African-American people were more likely to suffer from severe forms of coronavirus disease.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Faculty Share Expertise on Continuing COVID-19 Response Efforts|url=https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2020/05/faculty-share-expertise-on-continuing-covid-19-response-efforts/|access-date=2020-08-01|website=news.feinberg.northwestern.edu|date=22 May 2020}}</ref> He believes that the pandemic should drive society to address healthcare disparities.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19's Lopsided Impact on Minorities Should 'Ignite' Reform, Experts Say|url=https://www.tctmd.com/news/covid-19s-lopsided-impact-minorities-should-ignite-reform-experts-say|access-date=2020-08-17|website=TCTMD.com|date=20 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In an event with the American College of Cardiology, Yancy remarked, “My greatest risk of death is no longer COVID-19. It is the color of my skin”. He does not believe that health disparities in the United States will be entirely solved by the creation of new policies, but by asking the question, “How can we interject compassion, civility and concern for all communities and not allow some communities to remain marginalized?”.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Baran–Unl|first=Denise M.|date=|title=African Americans risk of dying from the coronavirus starts before birth|url=https://www.theherald-news.com/2020/06/30/african-americans-risk-of-dying-from-the-coronavirus-starts-before-birth/a4oaxyq/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-17|website=www.theherald-news.com|language=en}}</ref> He worked with Robert Bonow to better understand the impact of coronavirus disease on people with cardiovascular conditions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faculty Weigh in on the COVID-19 Response|url=https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2020/04/faculty-weigh-in-on-the-covid-19-response/|access-date=2020-08-01|website=news.feinberg.northwestern.edu|date=22 April 2020}}</ref> He is particularly concerned that people who have recovered from coronavirus disease appear to suffer from heart abnormalities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Evidence Reveals Coronavirus' Lasting Impacts on Heart - Science news|url=https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/08/03/2320016/new-evidence-reveals-coronavirus-lasting-impacts-on-heart|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Tasnim News Agency|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title="Respect COVID-19": The virus can damage heart tissue, even in mild cases|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/heart-damage-lingers-covid-19-patients-even-after-recovery-n1235077|access-date=2020-08-17|website=NBC News|date=28 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=McArdleColumnistBioBioFollowFollowColumnist|first=Megan McArdlecloseMegan|title=Opinion {{!}} Don't just look at covid-19 fatality rates. Look at people who survive — but don't entirely recover.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-just-look-at-covid-19-fatality-rates-look-at-people-who-survive--but-dont-entirely-recover/2020/08/14/3b3de170-de6a-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html|access-date=2020-08-17|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}}</ref>
== Academic service == Yancy works to improve the representation of Black people working in medicine.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Students, Residents Travel to Support Diversity in Medicine|url=https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/05/students-residents-travel-to-support-diversity-in-medicine/|access-date=2020-08-01|website=news.feinberg.northwestern.edu|date=14 May 2019 }}</ref>
== Awards and honours ==
* 2001 Association of Black Cardiologists Daniel Savage Award for Scientific Achievement<ref name=":0" /> * 2003 American Heart Association Physician of the Year<ref name=":0" /> * 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, Top 1% of all Researchers in the Field<ref>{{Cite web|title=Northwestern 10th in World Ranking of Highly Cited Researchers|url=https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2016/01/northwestern-10th-in-world-ranking-of-highly-cited-researchers/|access-date=2020-08-01|website=news.feinberg.northwestern.edu|date=25 January 2016 }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> * 2009 Elected President of the American Heart Association<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clyde Yancy|url=https://www.practiceupdate.com/author/clyde-yancy/1518|access-date=2020-08-01|website=PracticeUpdate|language=en}}</ref> * 2016 Elected to the National Academy of Medicine<ref name=":1" /> * 2019 Tulane University School of Medicine Outstanding Alumnus Award<ref>{{Cite web|title=View Content|url=https://tmaa.tulane.edu/s/1586/medical/17/interior.aspx?sid=1586&gid=6&pgid=252&cid=20340&ecid=20340&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=10829|access-date=2020-08-01|website=tmaa.tulane.edu|language=en}}</ref> * 2020 Elected to the Association of American Physicians<ref name=":1" />
== Select papers ==
* {{Cite journal|last1=Hunt|first1=Sharon Ann|last2=Abraham|first2=William T|last3=Chin|first3=Marshall H|last4=Feldman|first4=Arthur M|last5=Francis|first5=Gary S|last6=Ganiats|first6=Theodore G|last7=Jessup|first7=Mariell|last8=Konstam|first8=Marvin A|last9=Mancini|first9=Donna M|last10=Michl|first10=Keith|last11=Yancy|first11=Clyde W.|date=2009|title=2009 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation|journal= Journal of the American College of Cardiology|language=English|volume=53|issue=15|pages=e1–e90|doi=10.1016/j.jacc.2008.11.013|pmid=19358937|issn=0735-1097|oclc=4932805427|doi-access=free}} * {{Cite journal|last1=January|first1=Craig T|last2=Wann|first2=L. Samuel|last3=Alpert|first3=Joseph S|last4=Calkins|first4=Hugh|last5=Cigarroa|first5=Joaquin E|last6=Cleveland|first6=Joseph C|last7=Conti|first7=Jamie B|last8=Ellinor|first8=Patrick T|last9=Ezekowitz|first9=Michael D|last10=Field|first10=Michael E|last11=Yancy|first11=Clyde W.|date=2014|title=2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation|journal= Journal of the American College of Cardiology|language=English|volume=64|issue=21|pages=e1–e76|doi=10.1016/j.jacc.2014.03.022|pmid=24685669|issn=0735-1097|oclc=5575647810|doi-access=free}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Yancy C.W|last2=Jessup M|last3=Bozkurt B|last4=Butler J|last5=Drazner M.H|last6=Fonarow G.C|last7=Horwich T|last8=Januzzi J.L|last9=Kasper E.K|last10=Levy W.C|last11=Masoudi F.A|date=2013|title=2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of heart failure: A report of the American college of cardiology foundation/american heart association task force on practice guidelines|journal= Journal of the American College of Cardiology|language=English|volume=62|issue=16|pages=e147–e239|doi=10.1016/j.jacc.2013.05.019|pmid=23747642|issn=0735-1097|oclc=5164937317|doi-access=free}} * {{Cite book|last1=Yancy|first1=Clyde W|title=Therapeutic strategies in heart failure|last2=Young|first2=James B|date=2008|publisher=Clinical Publishing|isbn=978-1-84692-548-1|location=Oxford|language=English|oclc=945675825}}
== Personal life == Yancy has two daughters.<ref name=":0" />
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