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. Dr. Rimm served as the Director of the Health Professionals Follow-up Study for twenty years, a prospective investigation of diet and chronic disease among 50,000 male health professionals. His main research interests include studying associations between diet and other lifestyle characteristics in relation to risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
Dr. Rimm served on the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee and 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 served 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 400 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.
