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Gerald Berenson, MD
Sept, 1922 – Nov, 2018
Founder of the Bogalusa Heart Study and a leading researcher in childhood heart disease risk.
Bachelor’s in Science from Tulane University in 1943. He received his medical degree from Tulane in 1945. He then served as a doctor in the US Navy from 1945 to 1948.
Gerald Sanders Berenson was an American cardiologist, heart researcher, and public health specialist who specialized in researching the causes of heart diseases. Berenson’s fundamental research revealed that adult heart disease arises from practices and behaviors that begin in childhood. He also discovered that atherosclerosis was significantly more pronounced in individuals who had three or four cardiovascular risk factors compared to those who had none.
Lydia A. Bazzano, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Lifespan Epidemiology Research
Lynda B. and H. Leighton Steward Professor in Nutrition Research
Wei Chen, MD – Retired
Research Professor
Center for Cardiovascular Health, Department of Epidemiology
Emily Harville, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Lu Qi, MD, PhD
HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor
Director, Tulane University Obesity Research Center
Changwei Li, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Tanika Kelly, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
PhD, Genetic Epidemiology
Tulane University
Owen T Carmichael, PhD, BS
Director of Biomedical Imaging
Professor, Louisiana State University
Elaine M. Urbina, MD, MS
Director of Preventive Cardiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Robert L. Newton, Jr., PhD
Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Jessica G. Woo, MHSA, PhD
Professor
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Rhoda Au, PhD
Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Boston University
David J. Libon, PhD
Professor
Rowan University
Keith Ferdinand, PhD
Professor
Gerald S. Berenson Chair in Preventive Cardiology, Tulane University
Sid O'Bryant, PhD
Professor
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Shakira Sugila
Professor
Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health Cardiometabolic Diseases
Jeanette Gustat, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Director, MPH Program in Epidemiology Co-Director, Tulane DITIRC Program
Ileana De Anda-Duran, MD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University
Bogalusa Heart Study Staff
