Grand Rounds Lecture with Ana Navas-Acien

To RSVP, please visit /grand-rounds-2817/ Metals and Cardiovascular Disease: Opportunities for Prevention Ana Navas-Acien is a physician-epidemiologist with a specialty in Preventive Medicine and Public Health (Hospital La Paz, Madrid ’01) and a PhD in Epidemiology (Johns Hopkins University ’05). Her research investigates the long-term health effects of widespread environmental exposures (arsenic and other metals, tobacco smoke, e-cigarettes, air pollution), their interactions with genetic and epigenetic variants, and effective interventions for reducing involuntary environmental exposures. For more than 10 years she has been working on environment-related research in population-based cohort studies such as the Strong Heart Study, a study of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in American Indian communities, and the Multi-Ethnic Studyof Atherosclerosis (MESA), a study of cardiovascular, metabolic and lungdisease in urban settings across the US. Both in the US and internationally, she conducts research to evaluate exposure to tobacco smoke including emerging public health challenges such as waterpipe smoking and e-cigarettes. Her research goals are to contribute to the reduction of environmental health disparities in underserved and disproportionately exposed populations.