Ruhul Abid, MD, PhD is Professor of Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and Principal Investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), Cardiothoracic Surgery Division at Rhode Island Hospital.
Dr. Abid received his MD from Dhaka Medical College with special training on hypertension and related diseases. He also served as the Project Leader of a PHC (Global Health) project with special emphasis on communicable and non-communicable diseases including cardiovascular and maternal health care in Bangladesh. Dr. Abid received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan. He completed a Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in 2001. He began his career at Harvard Medical School as an Instructor in Medicine in 2002, rising to the rank of Assistant Professor in 2006. He joined Brown Medical School in 2011 and has established his vascular biology lab at the CVRC of Rhode Island Hospital. He served on the Medical Faculty Executive Council of Alpert Medical School from 2012-2015. He has served as an Executive Faulty Member at Brown Global Health Initiative since 2017 and on the Global Health Advisory Committee at the Center for Global Health Equity. Dr. Abid is also an affiliated faculty at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs.
Dr. Abid has combined careers in translational research on cardiovascular diseases (CVD), global health research in humanitarian crisis using digital innovations, and teaching of graduate and medical students. His CVD research interests include mechanisms of coronary circulation in health and disease (e.g. myocardial ischemia), signal transduction in vascular endothelial cell, and effects of subcellular oxidants on endothelial metabolism and coronary angiogenesis. Dr. Abid has active global health programs that serve 40,000 underserved industrial and garment factory workers in Bangladesh since 2013 and 1.1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar since 2017. Many faculty members, medical students and undergraduate students from Brown University have been actively involved in Dr. Abid's global and international health programs with special emphasis on large-scale implementation science research, digital innovation, and management of chronic non-communicable diseases in underserved and humanitarian settings in Bangladesh and Nepal. He has been continuously supported by research grants from the American Heart Association (SDG, GIA) and NIH/NHLBI/NIGMS (R01, P20, R25, T32) since 2004. His global health programs have been funded by UKAID/DFID, Grand Challenges Canada, UNFPA, and the World Bank. In recognition of his CVD research achievements, Dr. Abid was honored by the American Heart Association with the prestigious Werner Risau New Investigator Award in Vascular Biology in 2011. Dr. Abid is also the recipient of the 6th annual Young Investigator Award in Thrombosis from the ATVB, American Heart Association in 2006. He chairs the Clinical Fellowship Grant Review Committe at the American Heart Association, serves as a permanent member of the IVPP Study Section/CSR at the National Institutes of Health, Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Surgery Research Fellowship Program (T32) at Brown University Healht, and on the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals including Nature Scientific Reports. Dr. Abid is a has mentored many junior faculty, residents, postdoctoral fellows, medical and undergraduate students during his tenure at HMS and Brown Alpert Medical School.
Ruhul Abid has been utilizing his extensive experience in both research and medicine to advance cardiovascular medicine and global health research.
