Dr. Lu Qi earned an MS in Nutrition from the Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and an MD from Peking University Health Science Center. He obtained a PhD in Nutrition and Epidemiology from Tufts University. His research focuses on the genetic, nutrition, and biochemical risk factors and gene-environment interactions in relation to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Lu Qi is now the HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor at Tulane University and adjunct professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include nutrition, genetics and epidemiology.
Dr. Frank M. Sacks is a Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Departmenta of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a senior attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he has a specialty clinic in hyperlipidemia within the cardiovascular division. He is involved in research and public policy in nutrition, cholesterol disorders, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Sacks was the Chair of the Design Committee of the DASH study where the DASH diet was designed, and Chair of the Steering Committee for the DASH-Sodium trial.
