Dr. Shyon Parsa

Biography

Shyon earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas - Austin, graduating with honors. He completed coursework in Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena in Living Systems at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University under Clare Hall fellow Dr. Kenneth Diller. After graduation, Shyon enrolled in medical school at UT Southwestern, where he graduated with an M.D. with distinction and became a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honor society. He started his internal medicine residency at Stanford University Hospital in 2023. In 2024, he was awarded the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Seed Grant for his project titled 'An Artificial Intelligence Approach Utilizing Radiomic-Derived Calcium Features for Calcium Scoring CT (CAC-CT) in Cardiovascular Risk Stratification' as a co-PI. In 2025, he was selected for the Young Investigator Award by the National Lipid Association and was named a finalist for the American Heart Association Early Career Investigator Award in Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine Research. Currently, he is leading the NOTIFY-ASCVD trial alongside co-PIs Fatima Rodriguez and Fahim Abbasi. His research interests include the use of AI for opportunistic coronary artery disease assessment, clinical integration of AI-based diagnostic algorithms, clinical trials, and preventive health advocacy public policy. He plans to pursue a career in cardiology, focusing on advanced computational imaging techniques and medical device development, as well as advocacy in local communities abroad.

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