Miguel Ángel Martínez-González
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| Born | Miguel Ángel Martínez-González 11 September 1957 Málaga, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Fields | Epidemiology |
| Alma mater | University of Granada |
| Doctoral advisor |
Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez Aurora Bueno |
| Doctoral students |
Álvaro Alonso Almudena Sánchez-Villegas Maira Bes-Rastrollo Miguel Ruiz-Canela Estefania Toledo |
| Known for | Mediterranean diet |
| Notable awards |
Grace Goldsmith Award Best investigator in Nutrition in Spain |
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, MD, MPH, PhD, (born in 1957 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish physician, epidemiologist, professor, and nutrition researcher. He has been often a visiting scholar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Dept. Nutrition).
Currently, Martínez-González is the Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at University of Navarra at the Medical School and Principal Investigator of an Advanced Research Grant of the European Research Council.
Martínez-González is also the 'Principal Investigator' of the SUN cohort study, and he was (2006-2013) the Coordinator of the several centers included in the PREDIMED Network (a large clinical trial assessing the effects of a Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of Cardiovascular disease and he has comprehensively studied the nutritional determinants of obesity in the Spanish population.
He was awarded with the Grace Goldsmith Award (American College of Nutrition, 2013 and the Rankin-Skatrud lecture (Univ. of Wisconsin, 2016).
On September 2016 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Department of Nutrition of Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is the co-PI together with Frank B. Hu of two on-going grants funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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