Dr. Abhinav (Abhi) Goyal is an academic cardiologist and clinical investigator who serves as Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology) at the Emory School of Medicine; Professor of Epidemiology at Emory Rollins School of Public Health; and Chief Quality Officer for the Emory Heart and Vascular Service Line. Prior to joining the Emory faculty in 2007, Dr. Goyal was a cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center (2002-2006); clinical research fellow at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (2004-2006); and a clinical trials fellow at McMaster University (2006-2007). Dr. Goyal has been a career-long champion of improving STEMI and NSTEMI care at regional, state, and national levels, as well as an active clinical investigator in acute coronary syndromes. Dr. Goyal serves on numerous AHA and ACC committees, including chair of the Georgia AHA Mission: Lifeline program (2014-present); chair of the AHA Coronary Artery Disease Systems of Care Advisory Group (member since 2018, chair since 2022); member of the 2025 ACC/AHA/ACEP/NAEMSP/SCAI Guideline for Acute Coronary Syndromes; and member of the ACC NCDR Metrics and Reporting Methodology Subcommittee (2018-2020, and again 2023-present). He also has historically served as a member of the ACC/AHA ACTION Registry-GWTG Research and Publications Committee (2013-2019); the ACC Diabetes Collaborative Registry Research and Publications Committee (2015-2021); and member of the steering committee of the ACC Type 2 Myocardial Infarction Roundtable (2019-2020). He and his research collaborators have published in several high-impact journals, including JAMA, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality Outcomes, and JAMA Cardiology.
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Areas of Interest
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Health Outcomes
- Health Services Research
Education
- MD 1999, Northwestern University Medical School
- MHS (Masters in Health Sciences) 2006, Duke University
- Internal Medicine Residency 2002, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
- Cardiology Fellowship (Clinical) 2004, Duke University Medical Center
- Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship (Clinical) 2007, Duke University Medical Center
- Cardiovascular Research Fellowship 2006, Duke Cliincal Research Institute
- Cardiovascular Research Fellowship 2007, Population Health Res. Inst., McMaster Univ
Publications
- Osho A, Fernandes MF, Poudel R, de Lemos J, Hong H, Zhao J, Li S, Thomas K, Kikuchi DS, Zegre-Hemsey J, Ibrahim N, Shah NS, Hollowell L, Tamis-Holland J, Granger CB, Cohen M, Henry T, Jacobs AK, Jollis JG, Yancy CW, Goyal A, 2023, Race-based differences in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) process metrics and mortality from 2015-2021: an analysis of 178,062 patients from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) Registry, Circulation, ,
- Jollis JG, Granger CB, Zegre-Hemsey JK, Henry TD, Goyal A, Tamis-Holland JE, Roettig ML, Ali MJ, French WJ, Poudel R, Zhao J, Stone RH, Jacobs AK, 2022, Treatment time and in-hospital mortality among patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, 2018-2021, JAMA, ,
- Xie JX, Kobashigawa JA, Kennedy KF, Henry TD, Tabak SW, Krebbs R, Shaw L, Abbott JD, Book W, Rab ST, Spertus JA, Goyal A, 2020, Omission of heart transplant recipients from the Appropriate Use Criteria for Revascularization and its impact on heart transplant centers, JAMA Cardiol, ,
- Pandey A, Keshvani N, Khera R, Lu D, Vaduganathan M, Joynt-Maddox KE, Das SR, Kumbhani D, Goyal A, Girotra S, Chan P, Fonarow GC, Matsouaka R, Wang TY, de Lemos JA, 2020, Temporal trends in racial differences in 30-day readmission and mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction among Medicare beneficiaries: an analysis from the NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry, JAMA Cardiol, ,
- Shin EY, Ochuko P, Bhatt K, Howard B, McGorisk G, Delaney L, Langdon K, Khosravanipour M, Nambi AA, Grahovec A, Morris DC, Castellano PZ, Shaw LJ, Sperling LS, Goyal A, 2018, Electronic health record-based overestimation of failure to prescribe statins in patients with coronary artery disease in a large, academic, multispecialty clinic practice, J Am Heart Assoc, ,
- Shaw LJ, Goyal A, Mehta C, Xie J, Phillips L, Kelkar A, Knapper J, Berman DS, Nasir K, Veledar E, Blaha MJ, Blumenthal R, Min JK, Fazel R, Wilson PWF, Budoff MJ, 2018, Ten-year resource utilization and costs for cardiovascular care, J Am Coll Cardiol, ,
- Goyal A, de Lemos JA, Peng SA, Thomas L, Amsterdam EA, Hockenberry JM, Peterson ED, Wang TY, 2015, Association of patient enrollment in Medicare Part D with outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, ,
- Goyal A, Bornstein WA, 2013, Health system-wide quality programs to improve blood pressure control, JAMA, 310, 695-6
- Goyal A, Spertus JA, Gosch K, Venkitachalam L, Jones PG, van den Berghe G, Kosiborod M, 2012, Serum potassium levels and mortality in acute myocardial infarction, JAMA, 307, 157-64
- Nerenberg KA, Goyal A, Xavier D, Sigamani A, Ng J, Mehta SR, Díaz R, Kosiborod M, Yusuf S, Gerstein HC, 2011, Piloting a novel algorithm for glucose control in the CCU: the RECREATE (REsearching Coronary REduction by Appropriately Targeting Euglycemia) Trial., Diabetes Care, , doi: 10.2337/dc11-0706
- Goyal A, Bhatt DL, Steg PG, Gersh BL, Alberts MJ, Ohman EM, Corbalán R, Eagle KA, Gaxiola E, Gao R, Goto S, D’Agostino RB, Califf RM, Smith SC, Wilson PW., 2010, Attained educational level and incident atherothrombotic events in low-and-middle income compared with high-income countries., Circulation, 122, 1167-75
- Goyal A, Norton CR, Thomas TN, Davis RL, Butler J, Ashok V, Zhao L, Vaccarino V, Wilson PW, 2010, Predictors of incident heart failure in a large insured population: a one million person-year follow-up study, Circulation: Heart Failure, 3, 698-705
- Goyal A, Mehta SR, Diaz R, Gerstein HC, Afzal R, Xavier D, Lisheng L, Pais P, Yusuf S., 2009, Differential clinical outcomes associated with hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia in acute myocardial infarction. , Circulation, 120, 2429-2437
- Kosiborod M, Inzucchi SE, Goyal A, Krumholz HM, Masoudi FA, Xiao L, Spertus JA. , 2009, The relationship between spontaneous and iatrogenic hyperglycemia and mortality in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction., JAMA, 301, 1556-1564
- Díaz R (shared first author), Goyal A (shared first author), Mehta S, Afzal R, Xavier D, Pais P, Chrolavicius S, Zhu J, Kazmi K, Liu L, Budaj A, Zubaid M, Avezum A, Ruda M, Yusuf S., 2007, Glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) therapy in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction., JAMA, 298, 2399-2405
- Goyal A, Alexander JH, Hafley GE, Graham SH, Mehta RH, Mack MJ, Wolf RK, Cohn LH, Kouchoukos NT, Harrington RA, Gennevois D, Gibson CM, Califf RM, Ferguson Jr., TB, Peterson ED., 2007, Outcomes associated with the use of secondary prevention medications following coronary artery bypass graft surgery., Ann Thorac Surg, 83, 993-1001
- Goyal A, Mahaffey KW, Garg J, Nicolau JC, Hochman JS, Weaver WD, Theroux P, Oliveira GB, Todaro TG, Mojcik CF, Armstrong PW, Granger CB. , 2006, Prognostic significance of the change in glucose in first 24 hours after acute myocardial infarction: results from the CARDINAL study., Eur Heart J, 27, 1289-97
- Goyal A, Yusuf S., 2006, The burden of cardiovascular disease in the Indian subcontinent. , Indian J Med Res , 124, 235-44
- Alexander JH, Hafley G, Harrington RA, Peterson ED, Ferguson TB Jr., Lorenz TJ, Goyal A, Gibson M, Mack MJ, Gennevois D, Califf RM, and Kouchoukos NT, for the PREVENT IV Investigators., 2005, Efficacy and safety of edifoligide, an E2F transcription factor decoy, for the prevention of vein graft failure following coronary artery bypass graft surgery., JAMA, 294, 2446-54
- Goyal A, Samaha FF, Boden WE, Wade MJ, Kimmel SE, 2002, Stress test criteria used in the conservative arm of the FRISC-II trial underdetects surgical coronary artery disease when applied to patients in the VANQWISH trial, J Am Coll Cardiol, ,
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