Howard D. Sesso, ScD, MPH, FAHA is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and serves as Director of Nutrition Research and Co-Director of Hypertension Research. He specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease and major risk factors including hypertension and obesity. His research also focuses on dietary factors such as vitamin and mineral supplements, lycopene, and flavonoids, plus the role of nutritional biomarkers. He is also interested in the role of diet and lifestyle in the prevention of cancer. Dr. Sesso is also an expert in the design, methodology, and conduct of epidemiologic studies and randomized clinical trials. He leads the Physicians’ Health Study (PHS) II, a recently completed trial testing vitamin supplements, including a multivitamin, on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases in 14,641 men with more than a decade of follow-up. Dr. Sesso is also testing the effects of vitamin D and fish oil supplements on ambulatory blood pressure and the risk of developing hypertension in an ancillary study from the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL) trial. Finally, he is Co-Principal Investigator of the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), a randomized trial that will test cocoa flavanol and multivitamin supplements in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer in 18,000 women and men. Dr. Sesso has published more than 200 papers to date, and especially enjoys teaching and mentoring new investigators.
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