Harvard Affiliations: Director, Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Associate Professor, Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School 

CV: Eric Rimm's Curriculum Vitae

Eric Rimm is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School.   He is the Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.  His research is focused on the health effects of alcohol, micronutrients, antioxidants and fatty acids and also on plasma and genetic markers of heart disease. Dr. Rimm is currently serving on the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee, previously served on the Institute of Medicine’s Dietary Reference Intakes for Macronutrients Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  He serves on the Executive Committee of the Epidemiology and Prevention Council of the American Heart Association and serves on the Board of Directors for Project Bread -The Walk for Hunger. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, Circulation, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology:  

The Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology promotes and advances research collaboration and discussion among investigators with expertise in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth lsrael Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Framingham Study, and other sites. 

Member, Society For Epidemiological Research

Member, The American Heart Association

Member, NAASO, The North American Association for the Study of Obesity 

Personal Awards: 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Research Service Award (1986-1991)

Student Workshop Award, Society for Epidemiological Research  (1989)

Harvard School of Public Health, Mentor/Teaching Award   (1996)

Trainee Awards: 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tobias Pischon, Jeremiah Stamler Award national winner for outstanding research, American Heart Association  (2003)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tianying Wu, Jeremiah Stamler Award national winner for outstanding research, American Heart Association  (2004)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stephanie Chiuve, Jeremiah Stamler Award national winner for outstanding research, American Heart Association  (2006)

Practice of Epidemiology

Cardiovascular Epidemiology

The Science of Human Nutrition 

Sc.D., 1991, Harvard School of Public Health

Rimm EB, Williams P, Fosher K, Criqui M, and Stampfer MJ. A biologic basis for moderate alcohol consumption and lower coronary heart disease risk: A meta-analysis of effects on lipids and hemostatic factors. BMJ, 1999; 319:1523-1528.

Pischon T, Girman CJ, Hotamisligil GS, Rifai N, Hu FB, Rimm EB. Plasma adiponectin levels and risk of myocardial infarction in men. JAMA, 2004;291:1730-1737.

Mozzaffarian D, Rimm EB. Fish intake, contaminants, and human health: evaluating the risks and the benefits. JAMA, 2006; 297: 590.

Tuncman G, Erbay E, Hom X, De Vivo I, Campos H, Rimm EB, Hotamisligil GS. A genetic variant at the fatty acid-binding protein aP2 locus reduces the risk for hypertriglyceridemia, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 2;103(18):6970-5.

Rimm EB, Moats C. Alcohol and coronary heart disease: drinking patterns and mediators of effect. Ann Epidemiol, 2007; 17: S3-7.

Pai JK, Mukamal KJ, Rexrode KM, Rimm EB. C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Gene Polyporphisms, CRP Levels, and Risk of Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Two Nested Case-Control Studies. PLos ONE. 2008 Jan 2;3(1):e1395.

Jensen MK, Mukamal KJ, Overvad K, Rimm EB. Alcohol consumption, TaqIB polymorphism of cholesteryl ester transfer protein, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and risk of coronary heart disease in men and women. Eur Heart J. 2008 Jan;29(1):104-12.