Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
The overall goals of my lab’s research are to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment and to optimize care for conditions such as diabetes and heart failure. We aim to prevent cardiovascular disease and other complications by optimizing care for these complex chronic conditions.
Our behavioral clinical trials and clinical quality improvement projects include the following:
This quality improvement project aims to refine clinical pathways and processes to impact Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) management of Veterans through a Learning Healthcare System model of quality improvement designed to enhance the management of dyslipidemia among those with high-risk ASCVD.
PRagmatic EValuation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid-lowering in oldEr adults (PREVENTABLE) This large study’s objective is to generate knowledge about the role of statins in older adults in whom risk/benefit for primary prevention is understudied. The purpose is to learn if taking a statin could help older adults live well for longer by preventing dementia, disability, or heart disease.
Our lab also has expertise in observational population science. We analyze large population-based databases to improve CVD risk assessment and management. We have experience working with NCHS databases and are working with other electronic medical record-based databases.
We welcome students interested in joining the lab. We conduct our research projects in a busy urban hospital setting with a multidisciplinary group that includes individuals with expertise in medicine, psychology, epidemiology, statistics, health education, public health, and health economics. There are opportunities for students to obtain research experience through working with observational data or work on our RCTs as a clinical research volunteer. Please email sundar.natarajan@nyulangone.org for details.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
MD from Madras Medical College
Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Primary Care Physician-Scientist Fellowship
Residency, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Categorical Program in Internal Medicine
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Heart failure reviews. 2023 Jul; 28(4):795-806
Health psychology. 2022 Oct; 41(10):701-709
Hypertension. 2021 Jun; 77(6):1867-1876
American journal of health behavior. 2019 Jul 01; 43(4):659-670
Annals of internal medicine. 2020 Nov 17; 173(10):822-829
Preventing chronic disease. 2020 May 21; 17:E36
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