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Barbara V. Howard, PhD.

Barbara V. Howard, Ph.D.  is a Senior Scientist and former President of MedStar Health Research Institute. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and currently holds faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University and the Department of Biochemistry at Howard University. Formerly, she was the Associate Chief of the Phoenix Clinical Diabetes and Nutrition Section, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health. She is past Chair of the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association and past Chair of the Nutrition Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, and the current chair of the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism . She served as a member of the NIH Expert Panel on Obesity that developed guidelines for the treatment and prevention of obesity and she also serves on the editorial boards for several scientific journals.

She has received the Bolton Corson Medal from the Franklin Institute for research in nutrition and atherosclerosis and the Special Recognition Award from the Arteriosclerosis Council of the American Heart Association. She was a Bierman lecturer for the American Diabetes Association and a Levy lecturer for the American Heart Association, and has received the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association. Her major research interests are in cardiovascular disease, particularly in relation to diabetes and its occurrence in diverse ethnic groups. Her current research projects include the Strong Heart Study, a multi-center study of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in American Indians; the Women's Health Initiative, a multi-center study of postmenopausal women and their health; GOCADAN, a study of the genetics of coronary artery disease in Alaska Eskimos; Project EXPORT, a study of diabetes in Native Hawaiian populations; and the SANDS study, a multi-center study to examine strategies for reducing atherosclerosis in people with diabetes.

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