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Leo F. Buckley, PharmD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Core Faculty in the Translational Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research (TraCER) Unit at UT Southwestern. He is a pharmacist-scientist with advanced training in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy, mechanistic clinical trials, and molecular population science. His research program focuses on identifying novel pathways and therapeutic strategies for the primary prevention of heart failure, integrating large-scale proteomics, genomics, and clinical epidemiology to translate biologic discoveries into interventions with public health impact.

Dr. Buckley has led or contributed to nearly a dozen investigator-initiated mechanistic clinical trials and has published extensively in leading cardiovascular and epidemiology journals. His collaborative, cross-disciplinary work spans cardiology, nephrology, systems biology and population health and is supported by the NIH, American Society of Nephrology and the BWH Khoury Innovation Fund. He maintains a clinical pharmacy practice in the heart failure and cardiomyopathy clinic at UT Southwestern.