Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology & Prevention Mentors

Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Epidemiology and Population Health Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Pediatrics
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: CVD over the lifecourse; disparities in quality of care and outcomes; cognitive functioning; health services research

Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Health disparities by sexual orientation and gender identity; clinical informatics; diabetes; molecular markers of disease

Vice Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine
Chief of Epidemiology in the Department of Preventive Medicine
Mary Harris Thompson Professor
Professor of Preventive Medicine
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Complications of diabetes; sleep; racial/ethnic disparities in metabolic and CVD; epidemiologic methodology

Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Nutrition)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Nutrition; genetics, high-throughput omic-technologies; biological underpinnings of disease

Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Medicine (Cardiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Subclinical measures of CVD; personalized medicine; CVD epidemiology across the lifecourse

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Child and adolescent health; structural racism and health; cardiovascular disease prevention; positive psychology interventions

Director, Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health - Center for Global Oncology
Chief of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in the Department of Preventive Medicine
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention) and Pediatrics
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Biological mechanisms of environmental risk factors, epigenetics, genetics, cancer

Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Translational Metabolism and Health
Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Chronic kidney disease; bone mineral metabolism; biomarkers of CKD

Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Chronic lung disease; CVD and pulmonary health; epidemiology of lung diseases in the population

Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Disparities in cardiovascular disease; community engaged research methodologies; diabetes

Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Social and neighborhood determinants of CVD; obesity; racial/ethnic health disparities

Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Heart failure; women’s health and reproductive factors; cardio-pulmonary disease; obesity

Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Health Information Partnerships
Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Biomedical informatics and the application of electronic health resources for the conduct of clinical, translational and patient-centered research.

Associate Professor of Neurology (Sleep Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Sleep and circadian medicine; health disparities; global health; glucose disorders

Jeffrey A Linder, MD, MPH, FACP
Chief of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine
Michael A. Gertz Professor of Medicine
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Electronic health records and clinical decision support in primary care; behavior change

Jeremiah Stamler Professor
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Peripheral arterial disease; disability; inflammation; exercise trials and treatment; interventions

Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Genetic variation in CVD risk in human and animal models

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Child and adolescent health; microbiome; cardiovascular prevention; health disparities

Laura Rasmussen-Torvik, PhD, MPH
Chief of Epidemiology in the Department of Preventive Medicine
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Genetics of CVD, Diabetes, and Obesity; GWAS studies; translation of GWAS into clinical care

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Heart failure; Health disparities; immigration and health outcomes

Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Therapeutics
Neil J. Stone, MD, Professor
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Echocardiography, cardiovascular physiology, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension

Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics) and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Biostatistics; measurement error correction methodology for the assessment of diet and physical activity in cohort studies.

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)/Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Clinical cardiology; lipid disorders; proteomics; lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease

Vice Dean for Health Equity
Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine
Magerstadt Professor
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Heart failure, comparative effectiveness research, mentoring and career counseling