Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Deirdre Tobias is an obesity and nutritional epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Dr. Tobias was appointed the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2019. Her research focuses on the role of diet and lifestyle for obesity and its major chronic diseases, including gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association. She contributes to the development and analyses of healthful dietary patterns, metabolomics, and nutrition epidemiologic methods, and is co-Instructor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
BA, 2005, Premed, psychology
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
MSc, 2009, Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
ScD, 2011, Nutritional Epidemiology; Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Tobias DK, Manning AK, Wessel J, Raghavan S, Westerman KE, Bick AG, Dicorpo D, Whitsel EA, Collins J, Correa A, Cupples LA, Dupuis J, Goodarzi MO, Guo X, Howard B, Lange LA, Liu S, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Taylor KD, Tinker L, Wilson JG, Wu P, Carson AP, Vasan RS, Fornage M, Psaty BM, Kooperberg C, Rotter JI, Meigs J, Manson JE.
Diabetes Care. 2023 11 01. 46(11):1978-1985. PMID: 37756531
Tobias DK, Papatheodorou S, Yamamoto JM, Hu FB.
Diabetes Care. 2023 11 01. 46(11):1882-1893. PMID: 37890100
Bodhini D, Morton RW, Santhakumar V, Nakabuye M, Pomares-Millan H, Clemmensen C, Fitzpatrick SL, Guasch-Ferre M, Pankow JS, Ried-Larsen M, Franks PW, Tobias DK, Merino J, Mohan V, Loos RJF.
Commun Med (Lond). 2023 Oct 05. 3(1):133. PMID: 37794109
Young KG, McInnes EH, Massey RJ, Kahkoska AR, Pilla SJ, Raghavan S, Stanislawski MA, Tobias DK, McGovern AP, Dawed AY, Jones AG, Pearson ER, Dennis JM.
Commun Med (Lond). 2023 Oct 05. 3(1):131. PMID: 37794166
Tobias DK, Merino J, Ahmad A, Aiken C, Benham JL, Bodhini D, Clark AL, Colclough K, Corcoy R, Cromer SJ, Duan D, Felton JL, Francis EC, Gillard P, Gingras V, Gaillard R, Haider E, Hughes A, Ikle JM, Jacobsen LM, Kahkoska AR, Kettunen JLT, Kreienkamp RJ, Lim LL, Männistö JME, Massey R, Mclennan NM, Miller RG, Morieri ML, Most J, Naylor RN, Ozkan B, Patel KA, Pilla SJ, Prystupa K, Raghavan S, Rooney MR, Schön M, Semnani-Azad Z, Sevilla-Gonzalez M, Svalastoga P, Takele WW, Tam CH, Thuesen ACB, Tosur M, Wallace AS, Wang CC, Wong JJ, Yamamoto JM, Young K, Amouyal C, Andersen MK, Bonham MP, Chen M, Cheng F, Chikowore T, Chivers SC, Clemmensen C, Dabelea D, Dawed AY, Deutsch AJ, Dickens LT, DiMeglio LA, Dudenhöffer-Pfeifer M, Evans-Molina C, Fernández-Balsells MM, Fitipaldi H, Fitzpatrick SL, Gitelman SE, Goodarzi MO, Grieger JA, Guasch-Ferré M, Habibi N, Hansen T, Huang C, Harris-Kawano A, Ismail HM, Hoag B, Johnson RK, Jones AG, Koivula RW, Leong A, Leung GKW, Libman IM, Liu K, Long SA, Lowe WL, Morton RW, Motala AA, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Pankow JS, Pathirana M, Pazmino S, Perez D, Petrie JR, Powe CE, Quinteros A, Jain R, Ray D, Ried-Larsen M, Saeed Z, Santhakumar V, Kanbour S, Sarkar S, Monaco GSF, Scholtens DM, Selvin E, Sheu WH, Speake C, Stanislawski MA, Steenackers N, Steck AK, Stefan N, Støy J, Taylor R, Tye SC, Ukke GG, Urazbayeva M, Van der Schueren B, Vatier C, Wentworth JM, Hannah W, White SL, Yu G, Zhang Y, Zhou SJ, Beltrand J, Polak M, Aukrust I, de Franco E, Flanagan SE, Maloney KA, McGovern A, Molnes J, Nakabuye M, Njølstad PR, Pomares-Millan H, Provenzano M, Saint-Martin C, Zhang C, Zhu Y, Auh S, de Souza R, Fawcett AJ, Gruber C, Mekonnen EG, Mixter E, Sherifali D, Eckel RH, Nolan JJ, Philipson LH, Brown RJ, Billings LK, Boyle K, Costacou T, Dennis JM, Florez JC, Gloyn AL, Gomez MF, Gottlieb PA, Greeley SAW, Griffin K, Hattersley AT, Hirsch IB, Hivert MF, Hood KK, Josefson JL, Kwak SH, Laffel LM, Lim SS, Loos RJF, Ma RCW, Mathieu C, Mathioudakis N, Meigs JB, Misra S, Mohan V, Murphy R, Oram R, Owen KR, Ozanne SE, Pearson ER, Perng W, Pollin TI, Pop-Busui R, Pratley RE, Redman LM, Redondo MJ, Reynolds RM, Semple RK, Sherr JL, Sims EK, Sweeting A, Tuomi T, Udler MS, Vesco KK, Vilsbøll T, Wagner R, Rich SS, Franks PW.
Nat Med. 2023 Oct. 29(10):2438-2457. PMID: 37794253
Wan Y, Tobias DK, Dennis KK, Guasch-Ferré M, Sun Q, Rimm EB, Hu FB, Ludwig DS, Devinsky O, Willett WC.
BMJ. 2023 09 27. 382:e073939. PMID: 37758268
Wang F, Tessier AJ, Liang L, Wittenbecher C, Haslam DE, Fernández-Duval G, Heather Eliassen A, Rexrode KM, Tobias DK, Li J, Zeleznik O, Grodstein F, Martínez-González MA, Salas-Salvadó J, Clish C, Lee KH, Sun Q, Stampfer MJ, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Nat Commun. 2023 09 16. 14(1):5744. PMID: 37717037
Ahmad A, Lim LL, Morieri ML, Tam CH, Cheng F, Chikowore T, Dudenhöffer-Pfeifer M, Fitipaldi H, Huang C, Kanbour S, Sarkar S, Koivula RW, Motala AA, Tye SC, Yu G, Zhang Y, Provenzano M, Sherifali D, de Souza R, Tobias DK, Gomez MF, Ma RCW, Mathioudakis NN.
medRxiv. 2023 Aug 21. PMID: 37162891
Zhao L, Zhang X, Coday M, Garcia DO, Li X, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Naughton MJ, Lopez-Pentecost M, Saquib N, Shadyab AH, Simon MS, Snetselaar LG, Tabung FK, Tobias DK, VoPham T, McGlynn KA, Sesso HD, Giovannucci E, Manson JE, Hu FB, Tinker LF, Zhang X.
JAMA. 2023 08 08. 330(6):537-546. PMID: 37552302
Han X, Lains I, Li J, Li J, Chen Y, Yu B, Qi Q, Boerwinkle E, Kaplan R, Thyagarajan B, Daviglus M, Joslin CE, Cai J, Guasch-Ferré M, Tobias DK, Rimm E, Ascherio A, Costenbader K, Karlson E, Mucci L, Eliassen AH, Zeleznik O, Miller J, Vavvas DG, Kim IK, Silva R, Miller J, Hu F, Willett W, Lasky-Su J, Kraft P, Richards JB, MacGregor S, Husain D, Liang L.
Cell Rep Med. 2023 07 18. 4(7):101085. PMID: 37348500
A new Harvard Chan School study has identified a group of metabolites associated with risk of mortality, and another group linked with longevity.
People could potentially add years to their lives by switching from a typical Western diet—high in animal products and sugar—to a more plant-based diet.
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to choosing a diet, according to dietitians and health experts.
While some studies have suggested that the paleo diet—which focuses on “caveman” foods such as meat, produce, and nuts—may have health benefits, experts argue that the evidence is murky.
Although there are plenty of packaged food options for those on a plant-based diet, such as imitation meat burgers and kale chips, whole foods are still the best option.