Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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
Hamaya R, Mora S, Lawler PR, Cook NR, Ridker PM, Buring JE, Lee IM, Manson JE, Tobias DK.
Circ Genom Precis Med. 2021 Jul 15. PMID: 34264743
Sorkin JD, Manary M, Smeets PAM, MacFarlane AJ, Astrup A, Prigeon RL, Hogans BB, Odle J, Davis TA, Tucker KL, Duggan CP, Tobias DK.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Jul 13. PMID: 34258613
Drouin-Chartier JP, Hernández-Alonso P, Guasch-Ferré M, Ruiz-Canela M, Li J, Wittenbecher C, Razquin C, Toledo E, Dennis C, Corella D, Estruch R, Fitó M, Eliassen AH, Tobias DK, Ascherio A, Mucci LA, Rexrode KM, Karlson EW, Costenbader KH, Fuchs CS, Liang L, Clish CB, Martínez-González MA, Salas-Salvadó J, Hu FB.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Jul 01. 114(1):163-174. PMID: 33742198
Tobias DK, Wittenbecher C, Hu FB.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 06 01. 113(6):1385-1387. PMID: 33963733
Tobias DK, Lajous M.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 May 27. PMID: 34041528
Chou SH, Murata EM, Yu C, Danik J, Kotler G, Cook NR, Bubes V, Mora S, Chandler PD, Tobias DK, Copeland T, Buring JE, Manson JE, LeBoff MS.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Apr 23. 106(5):1377-1388. PMID: 33513226
Ivey KL, Nguyen XT, Posner D, Rogers GB, Tobias DK, Song R, Ho YL, Li R, Wilson PWF, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Hu FB, Willett WC, Djoussé L.
Nutrients. 2021 Apr 19. 13(4). PMID: 33921792
Hu Y, Zhang X, Ma Y, Yuan C, Wang M, Wu K, Tabung FK, Tobias D, Hu FB, Giovannucci E, Song M.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021 Apr 06. 113(4):381-389. PMID: 33225344
Ivey KL, Nguyen XT, Tobias DK, Song R, Rogers GB, Ho YL, Li R, Wilson PW, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Willett WC, Djoussé L.
Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2021 Jun. 43:456-463. PMID: 34024555
Haring B, Reiner AP, Liu J, Tobias DK, Whitsel E, Berger JS, Desai P, Wassertheil-Smoller S, LaMonte MJ, Hayden KM, Bick AG, Natarajan P, Weinstock JS, Nguyen PK, Stefanick M, Simon MS, Eaton CB, Kooperberg C, Manson JE.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Feb. 10(5):e018789. PMID: 33619969
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