Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Albert Hofman, MD, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Hofman was the chairman of the department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2016. He has been science director of the graduate school Netherlands Institute for Health sciences (Nihes) since its start in 1990 until 2015.
Ma Y, Zhang Y, Coresh J, Viswanathan A, Sullivan KJ, Walker KA, Liu C, Lipsitz LA, Selvin E, Sharrett AR, Gottesman RF, Blacker D, Hofman A, Windham BG, Juraschek SP.
Hypertension. 2023 Oct 23. PMID: 37869909
Lagou V, Jiang L, Ulrich A, Zudina L, González KSG, Balkhiyarova Z, Faggian A, Maina JG, Chen S, Todorov PV, Sharapov S, David A, Marullo L, Mägi R, Rujan RM, Ahlqvist E, Thorleifsson G, Gao ?, ?vangelou ?, Benyamin B, Scott RA, Isaacs A, Zhao JH, Willems SM, Johnson T, Gieger C, Grallert H, Meisinger C, Müller-Nurasyid M, Strawbridge RJ, Goel A, Rybin D, Albrecht E, Jackson AU, Stringham HM, Corrêa IR, Farber-Eger E, Steinthorsdottir V, Uitterlinden AG, Munroe PB, Brown MJ, Schmidberger J, Holmen O, Thorand B, Hveem K, Wilsgaard T, Mohlke KL, Wang Z, Shmeliov A, den Hoed M, Loos RJF, Kratzer W, Haenle M, Koenig W, Boehm BO, Tan TM, Tomas A, Salem V, Barroso I, Tuomilehto J, Boehnke M, Florez JC, Hamsten A, Watkins H, Njølstad I, Wichmann HE, Caulfield MJ, Khaw KT, van Duijn CM, Hofman A, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Whitfield JB, Martin NG, Montgomery G, Scapoli C, Tzoulaki I, Elliott P, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K, Brittain EL, McCarthy MI, Froguel P, Sexton PM, Wootten D, Groop L, Dupuis J, Meigs JB, Deganutti G, Demirkan A, Pers TH, Reynolds CA, Aulchenko YS, Kaakinen MA, Jones B, Prokopenko I.
Nat Genet. 2023 09. 55(9):1448-1461. PMID: 37679419
Liu C, Ma Y, Hofman A, Waziry R, Koton S, Pike JR, Windham BG, Power MC, Sharrett AR, Gottesman RF.
Ann Neurol. 2023 07. 94(1):13-26. PMID: 36966451
Hershey MS, Sotos-Prieto M, Andrieu S, Hofman A, Magiatis P, Martinez-Gonzalez MA, Yannakoulia M, Kales S, Scarmeas N.
J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 2023. 10(1):137-143. PMID: 36641619
Miettinen OS.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 10. PMID: 36495357
Smith GD, Hofman A.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 07. PMID: 36477575
Waziry R, Claus JJ, Hofman A.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2022 Oct 20. PMID: 36278345
Chen H, Zhou T, Guo J, Ji JS, Huang L, Xu W, Zuo G, Lv X, Zheng Y, Hofman A, Ma Y, Yuan C.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 10 06. 77(10):2116-2122. PMID: 34908120
Pankratz N, Wei P, Brody JA, Chen MH, de Vries PS, Huffman JE, Stimson MR, Auer PL, Boerwinkle E, Cushman M, de Maat MPM, Folsom AR, Franco OH, Gibbs RA, Haagenson KK, Hofman A, Johnsen JM, Kovar CL, Kraaij R, McKnight B, Metcalf GA, Muzny D, Psaty BM, Tang W, Uitterlinden AG, van Rooij JGJ, Dehghan A, O'Donnell CJ, Reiner AP, Morrison AC, Smith NL.
Hum Mol Genet. 2022 09 10. 31(18):3120-3132. PMID: 35552711
Waziry R, Hofman A, Ghanbari M, Tiemeier H, Ikram MA, Viswanathan A, Klap J, Ikram MK, Goudsmit J.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2022 Aug. 31(8):106568. PMID: 35749936
Orthostatic hypotension—a sudden drop in blood pressure upon standing up, resulting in dizziness—may be linked to a higher risk of developing dementia, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
Three epidemiologists discussed the challenge of uncovering the causes of diseases at the 6th Cutter Symposium at Harvard Chan School.
Harvard Chan School and the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China, announce collaborative program in clinical research.
Albert Hofman, chair of Harvard Chan School's Department of Epidemiology, has been named a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands for exceptional service to the community.
Faculty awards and honors, appointments and promotions.