Leo Buckley, Pharm.D. Titles and Appointments Core Faculty, TRACER Unit Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Internal Medicine | Public Health Biography Leo F. Buckley, PharmD, MPH, FAHA, FACC, FHFSA, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Cardiology. He provides evidence-based pharmacotherapy for patients with complex cardiomyopathies in the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Clinic. Originally from Boston, he completed pharmacy school at Northeastern University, residency training in Pharmacy Practice and in Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Experimental Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also holds a Master of Public Health with a concentration in clinical effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As a cardiovascular pharmacotherapy researcher and clinician, his research integrates molecular and genetic epidemiology, multi-omics and mechanistic clinical investigation to identify and evaluate therapeutic pathways for heart failure prevention. His work has made particular contributions to cardiokidney disease, cardiovascular inflammation, iron biology and the implementation of evidence-based heart failure therapy. Research Interest Colchicine Epidemiology Genomics Inflammation Iron Deficiency Metabolomics Pharmacogenomics Proteomics Single-Cell Analysis Publications Featured Publications Linking Chronic Kidney Disease to Incident Heart Failure and Adverse Cardiac Remodeling Through the Plasma Proteome: The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities Study. Buckley LF, Dorbala P, Lamberson V, Claggett BL, Ren Y, Grams ME, Coresh J, Matsushita K, Demmer RT, Dubin RF, Deo R, Ganz P, Ballantyne CM, Hoogeveen RC, Yu B, Shah AM, JACC Heart Fail 2025 Jun 13 8 102512 Colchicine's Role in Cardiovascular Disease Management. Buckley LF, Libby P, Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2024 May 44 5 1031-1041 Circulating Neutrophil-Related Proteins Associate with Incident Heart Failure and Cardiac Dysfunction: The ARIC Study. Buckley LF, Dorbala P, Claggett BL, Libby P, Tang W, Coresh J, Ballantyne CM, Hoogeveen RC, Yu B, Shah AM, Eur J Heart Fail 2023 Aug Hepcidin, incident heart failure, and cardiac dysfunction in older adults: the ARIC study. Aboelsaad IAF, Claggett BL, Lamberson V, Dorbala P, Matsushita K, Lutsey P, Yu B, Lennep BW, Farag YMK, Shah AM, Buckley LF, Eur J Prev Cardiol 2025 Aug 32 11 993-1000 Potential Impact of Colchicine on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the United States. Buckley LF, Chebrolu B, Al Zaria M, Blankstein R, Libby P, Weber BN, JACC Adv 2025 Mar 4 3 101622 Absolute and Functional Iron Deficiency in the US, 2017-2020. Tawfik YMK, Billingsley H, Bhatt AS, Aboelsaad I, Al-Khezi OS, Lutsey PL, Buckley LF, JAMA Netw Open 2024 Sep 7 9 e2433126 Drug-Drug Interactions and the Clinical Tolerability of Colchicine Among Patients With COVID-19: A Secondary Analysis of the COLCORONA Randomized Clinical Trial. Alfehaid LS, Farah S, Omer A, Weber BN, Alkhezi O, Tawfik YMK, Shah AM, Libby P, Buckley LF, JAMA Netw Open 2024 Sep 7 9 e2431309 Plasma Ferritin Levels, Incident Heart Failure, and Cardiac Structure and Function: The ARIC Study. Aboelsaad IAF, Claggett BL, Arthur V, Dorbala P, Matsushita K, Lennep BW, Yu B, Lutsey PL, Ndumele CE, Farag YMK, Shah AM, Buckley LF, JACC Heart Fail 2023 Dec Chronic Kidney Disease, Heart Failure, and Adverse Cardiac Remodeling in Older Adults: The ARIC Study. Buckley LF, Claggett BL, Matsushita K, McMahon GM, Skali H, Coresh J, Folsom AR, Konety SH, Wagenknecht LE, Mosley TH, Shah AM, JACC Heart Fail 2023 May 11 5 523-537 Associations Between Kidney Histopathologic Lesions and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease. Buckley LF, Schmidt IM, Verma A, Palsson R, Adam D, Shah AM, Srivastava A, Waikar SS, JAMA Cardiol 2023 Apr 8 4 357-365 Results 1-10 of 10 1 Honors & Awards FellowAmerican Heart Association (2026) FellowAmerican College of Cardiology (2026) Carl W. Gottschalk Research ScholarAmerican Society of Nephrology/KidneyCure (2022) Roger R. Williams Award for Genetic Epidemiology and the Prevention and Treatment of AtherosclerosisAmerican Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (2022) Award for Patient-Oriented or Clinical Research in HypertensionAmerican Heart Association / American Foundation for Hypertension Research and Education (2021) Khoury Innovation AwardBrigham and Women's Hospital (2021) Junior Investigator AwardAmerican College of Clinical Pharmacy (Cardiology Practice & Research Network) (2019) Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (2019) Best Resident or Fellow PosterAmerican College of Clinical Pharmacy (2017) Pharmacy Resident of the Year AwardBrigham and Womens Hospital (2014) InducteeRho Chi Honor Society in Pharmacy, Beta Tau Chapter (2011) Professional Associations/Affiliations American College of Cardiology American Heart Association Editorial Board, Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews Editorial Board, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology Heart Failure Society of America International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network
