Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, MS

Biography

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez serves as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Prevention for the American Heart Association (AHA). He leads the National Hypertension Control Initiative (NHCI), a blood pressure control cooperative agreement with the federal Office of Minority Health (OMH) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and is the AHA clinical lead on Target:BP (a joint blood pressure control initiative with the American Medical Association) and KnowDiabetesbyHeart^TM (a joint cardiovascular risk factor control initiative with the American Diabetes Association).  He serves on numerous health-related boards and committees at the local, state and national levels. Dr. Sanchez obtained his MD from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, an MPH from the UT Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, an MS in biomedical engineering from Duke University, and a BS in biomedical engineering and BA in chemistry from Boston University.