Academic Profiles
Omar Yaxmehen Bello Chavolla
Visiting Scholars and Scientists

Omar Yaxmehen Bello Chavolla

Lown Scholar

Global Health and Population

oybello@hsph.harvard.edu

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Overview

I am an Assistant Professor at the National Institute for Geriatrics in Mexico City, an Instructor in Physiology and Applied Biostatistics at the National Autonomous University Faculty of Medicine in Mexico and a Lown Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our research focuses in characterizing cardio-metabolic disease epidemiology and the interaction of cardio-metabolic disease phenotypes with biological aging in Mexican adults. Our team is working on the development of methods to estimate biological aging at a population level. I am committed to teaching, promoting reproducibility and open science, fostering international collaboration, and supporting career development.

MD, 01/2018, Medicine
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Specialist, 06/2019, Applied Statistics
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

PhD, 10/2019, Diabetes and Endocrinology
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Research Award for Young Scientists2024
Mexican Academy of Sciences

Bernard Lown Scholar2023
Harvard T.H. Chan School of public Health

Early Investigator Award2022
Endocrine Society

Dr. José Laguna García Award for Excellence in Teaching2022
Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Youth Award in Science and Technology2021
Mexican Government

National Investigator Level 12020
National Science and Technology Council

Interstellar Initiative Award2020
New York Academy of Sciences and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development

Mexico City Youth Award in Environmental and Public Health2019
Mexico City Government

Dr. Jorge Rosenkranz Award in Clinical Research2018
Mexican Health Foundation

Bibliography

Smoking, all-cause, and cause-specific mortality in individuals with diabetes in Mexico: an analysis of the Mexico city prospective study.

Ramírez-García D, Fermín-Martínez CA, Sánchez-Castro P, Núñez-Luna A, Basile-Alvarez MR, Fernández-Chirino L, Vargas-Vázquez A, Díaz-Sánchez JP, Kammar-García A, Almeda-Valdés P, Berumen-Campos J, Kuri-Morales P, Tapia-Conyer R, Alegre-Díaz J, Seiglie JA, Antonio-Villa NE, Bello-Chavolla OY.

BMC Public Health. 2024 Sep 02. 24(1):2383. PMID: 39223469

Prediabetes as a risk factor for all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective analysis of 115,919 adults without diabetes in Mexico City.

Fermín-Martínez CA, Bello-Chavolla OY, Paz-Cabrera CD, Ramírez-García D, Perezalonso-Espinosa J, Fernández-Chirino L, Vargas-Vázquez A, Díaz-Sánchez JP, Méndez-Labra PN, Núñez-Luna A, Basile-Alvarez MR, Sánchez-Castro P, Bragg F, Friedrichs LG, Aguilar-Ramírez D, Emberson JR, Berumen-Campos J, Kuri-Morales P, Tapia-Conyer R, Alegre-Díaz J, Seiglie JA, Antonio-Villa NE.

medRxiv. 2024 Apr 16. PMID: 38699295