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Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc (she/her/hers)

Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy Director, Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory and Senior Scientist
JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Lichtenstein is the Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School, and Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory and Senior Scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments as an Associated Faculty member in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. In 2005 Dr. Lichtenstein was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the medical faculty of the University of Eastern in Finland. She received a BS from Cornell University, MS from Pennsylvania State University, MS and D.Sc. from Harvard University, and post-doctoral training in at the Cardiovascular Institute at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Lichtenstein’s career research has focuses on assessing the interplay between diet and cardiometabolic risk factors. Past and current work includes addressing issues related to trans fatty acids, soy protein and isoflavones, sterol/stanol esters, novel vegetable oils differing in fatty acid profile and glycemic index, primarily in postmenopausal females and older males. Additional work is focused on population-based studies to assess the relationship between nutrient biomarkers and cardiovascular disease risk, application of systematic review methodology to the field of nutrition and most recently the impact of taste perception on diet quality. She has served on committees for the American Heart Association, National Academies of Medince, Food and Drug Administration, and US Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Lipid Research.

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