Eliseo Guallar

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Chair and Professor of the Department of Epidemiology

Dr. Guallar is an epidemiologist whose research is focused on the study of cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention, with an emphasis on evaluating the role of environmental and nutritional exposures in the development of cardiovascular disease. This research has made critically important and novel contributions to our understanding of risk factors for chronic disease both in the US and globally. He has published seminal articles and is a leading figure in an emerging field highlighting the risks of exposure to levels of metals previously considered safe for cardiovascular health. In addition to his work in toxic metals, Dr. Guallar has made important contributions to understanding the effects of certain micronutrients and vitamin supplements on cardiovascular disease risk and outcomes. Publications in this area were influential in changing consumer habits and attitudes towards these products. Much of this research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American Heart Association, the CDC, and other funders.

Dr. Guallar was the founding director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology at the Samsung Medical Center and a lead investigator of the Kangbuk Samsung Cohort Study at the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital since its inception in 2010. Dr. Guallar has published over 500 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a Deputy Editor for Methods at the Annals of Internal Medicine and a past member and Chair of the Cancer, Heart, and Sleep Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.

Prior to teaching at NYU, Dr. Guallar was a Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a core faculty member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins. In the Department of Epidemiology, Dr. Guallar was the Director of the Environmental and Occupational Area of Concentration and the Co-Director of the PhD Program. Dr. Guallar was also an adjunct Professor at the Department of Clinical Research Design and Evaluation of the Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Science and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, in Seoul, Korea.

Education

Diploma of English, Spanish Official School of Languages at Zaragoza (Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Zaragoza), Zaragoza, Spain

MD, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

MPH, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

DrPH, Harvard University, Boston, MA

Honors and awards

Six Honor Calls in the MD Program, University of Zaragoza School of Medicine (1981)

Fellow of Spain’s Program of Training of Graduate Research of the Ministry of Education and Science, University of Zaragoza (1988)

Fulbright Scholar, sponsored by Spain’s Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs (1989)

Faculty Innovation Award, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (2001)

Scientist Development Award, American Heart Association (2002)

Fellow of the American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (2013)

Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award 2014 – 2015, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (2015)

High Impact Research Icon, University of Malaya (2015)

Publications

Clinical N Staging Subclassification for Stage III-N2 NSCLC Patients Undergoing Trimodality Therapy: A Good Beginning Is Half the Battle

Damage Control in the Wake of Political Action That Threatens the Integrity of Medical Research

Deleterious mitochondrial heteroplasmies exhibit increased longitudinal change in variant allele fraction

Hearing changes and trajectories during the menopausal transition and their association with metabolic factors

Impact of tumor size by clinical N subclassification and histology in trimodality-treated N2 non-small cell lung cancer

Introducing Annals Guide to Journal Club: The Importance of Interpreting Clinical Research With Scientific Nuance

Menopausal stage transitions and associations with overall and domain-specific perceived stress in middle-aged Korean women

Menopausal stage transitions and their associations with overall and individual sleep quality in middle-aged Korean women

Response by Zhao et al to Letters Regarding Article, "intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease and Incident Dementia: The ARIC Study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities)"

Safety and efficacy of antiplatelet therapy in patients with intermediate coronary artery stenosis and deferred revascularization

Scalp cooling for preventing persistent chemotherapy-induced alopecia in anthracycline-treated patients: A single-arm trial

Standardization and Prediction to Control Confounding: Estimating Risk Differences and Ratios for Clinical Interpretations and Decision Making

A Metabolomics Approach to Identify Metabolites Associated With Mortality in Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis

Anemia, CKD, and Cognitive Function: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Versus Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Acute Myocardial Infarction Without Heart Failure

Cost-Effectiveness of Fractional FlowReserve-Guided Treatment for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Multivessel Disease A Prespecified Analysis of the FRAME-AMI Randomized Clinical Trial

Cost-Effectiveness of Intravascular Imaging-Guided Complex PCI: Prespecified Analysis of RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI Trial

Discontinuation of β-blocker therapy in stabilised patients after acute myocardial infarction (SMART-DECISION): rationale and design of the randomised controlled trial

Eliseo Guallar

Chair and Professor of the Department of Epidemiology

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Education

Honors and awards

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