Nathan Wong
Professor and Director
University of CA, Irvine
USA
Biography
Nathan D. Wong, PhD is Professor and Director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program in the Division of Cardiology at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at UC Irvine and UCLA. Holding PhD and MPH degrees in epidemiology from Yale University, he is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. He is Immediate Past President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. Dr. Wong has been an investigator or collaborator with numerous large-scale NIH-sponsored studies including the Framingham Heart Study, Women’s Health Initiative, Antihypertensive Lipid-Lowering to Prevent Heart Attack Trial, and the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. He regularly lectures nationally and internationally on his research in various topics in preventive cardiology and is a member of Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. With over 20 years of experience as a cardiovascular epidemiologist, Dr. Wong has edited or co-edited four clinical references. He has also authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts in his principal research areas of subclinical atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and lipids and hypertension, and serves on the editorial boards of several noted journals in the areas of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Research Interest
cardiovascular disease and diabetes