Howard D. Sesso
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Howard D. Sesso
Assistant Professor, Harvard
Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Sesso is an Associate
Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical
School. He received his B.A. in Human Biology from
Stanford University, an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from The
George Washington University, and an Sc.D. in
Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Sesso specializes in the epidemiology and prevention
of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially
hypertension, physical activity, obesity, and dietary
factors such as antioxidant vitamins, lycopene,
flavonoids, and alcohol, as well as the role of novel
biomarkers that underlie these associations.
Dr. Sesso is Co-Director of
Hypertension Research and Director of Nutrition Research
at the Division of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Sesso is
also interested in the design, methodology, and conduct
of epidemiologic studies and randomized clinical trials.
He leads the Physicians’ Health Study II, a randomized
trial that has tested whether common supplemental doses
of vitamin E, vitamin C. and a multivitamin have any
effect on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other
chronic diseases in 14,641 men initially aged ≥ 50
years. He has also recently initiated a 1-year clinical
trial testing a lycopene supplement in more than 200
subjects with coronary heart disease for the progression
of carotid atherosclerosis and changes in coronary
biomarkers.
Education
Sc.D. (Epidemiology), Harvard
School of Public Health
M.P.H. (Epidemiology), Harvard
School of Public Health
B.A. (Human Biology), Stanford
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Last Update
1/1/2017 11:25:24 AM
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