Dr. Mo Gad grew up in Cairo, Egypt, where he received his initial training and medical education. He later immigrated to the US in his mid-20s. He then completed his research fellowship at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. He obtained his Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of North Carolina and completed his internal medicine residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Currently, he is a cardiology fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Gad has done extensive work on global public health issues and has also focused on addressing racial and gender disparities in healthcare access and outcomes.

He has demonstrated a great aptitude for improving the community that we live in by providing data-leading initiatives developed by the American Heart Association and other societies. He has published many important papers in leading medical and public health journals. He addressed the racial disparities in the risk of maternal cardiovascular events in the United States, which found higher mortality, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and peripartum cardiomyopathy events in African American pregnant women compared to their white counterparts. This had a significant national impact when Reuters highlighted that “Awareness of these communities; attributes, as well as differences in incidence, risk factor burdens, prognosis, and treatment are necessary to mitigate racial and ethnic disparities in pregnant women who are at risk for cardiovascular disease” and led to significant advocacy efforts from multiple national organizations, including the American Heart Association.