Deirdre Kay Tobias, D.Sc.
Title Assistant Professor of Medicine Institution Brigham and Women's Hospital Address Harvard School of Public Health Bldg 2 655 Huntington Ave Boston MA 02115
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Title
Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition
Institution
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Biography
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA | BA | 2005 | Premed, psychology |
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA | MSc | 2009 | Epidemiology |
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA | ScD | 2011 | Nutritional Epidemiology; Epidemiology |
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Overview
Dr. Deirdre Tobias is an obesity and nutritional epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Dr. Tobias was appointed the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2019. Her research focuses on the role of diet and lifestyle for obesity and its major chronic diseases, including gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association. She contributes to the development and analyses of healthful dietary patterns, metabolomics, and nutrition epidemiologic methods, and is co-Instructor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
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Research
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U01CA272452
(TOBIAS, DEIRDRE KAY)
Sep 20, 2022 - Aug 31, 2027
Decoding mechanisms underlying metabolic dysregulation in obesity and digestive cancer risk
Role: Principal Investigator
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R01DK125803
(TOBIAS, DEIRDRE KAY)
Sep 1, 2020 - May 31, 2024
Health effects of substituting sugar-sweetened beverages with non-caloric beverages in adults with overweight and obesity
Role: Principal Investigator
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Junior Faculty Career Development Award
(TOBIAS, DEIRDRE KAY)
Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020
American Diabetes Association
Effect of a postpartum lifestyle intervention on metabolomic profiles in relation to glucose homeostasis among women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
Role: Principal Investigator
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Young Investigator in Medicine Hearst Award
(TOBIAS, DEIRDRE KAY)
Jan 1, 2019 - Jun 1, 2020
BWH Department of Medicine
Determinants of branched-chain amino acids and type 2 diabetes risk in women.
Role: Principal Investigator
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K01DK103720
(TOBIAS, DEIRDRE KAY)
Sep 15, 2014 - Nov 30, 2017
Metabolomics and type 2 diabetes risk among high-risk women with a history of gestational diabetes
Role: Principal Investigator
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