14 Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

EPISODE #14 - Translating Nutrition Science into PracticeRecording date: April 12, 2022Broadcast date: May 5, 2022                                                                   Hosts: Drs. Bill Harris & Kristina Harris JacksonGuest: Dr. Dariush MozaffarianBackground and Key Takeaways: Dr. Mozaffarian received his MD at Columbia University in New York City. And he did his Internal Medicine residency at Stanford and a Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Washington. It was there that he became interested in public health, receiving an MPH and later a doctorate in Public Health from Harvard. In 2006 he joined the faculty at the Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health. Eight years later moved across town to Tufts University where he's currently the Dean of the Freedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. He’s also a Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition and a Professor of Medicine at Tufts. Almost 20 years ago he published his first paper on omega-3 fatty acids and heart disease. In this episode, Dr. Mozaffarian discusses how he stumbled across omega-3s, the epidemic of poor nutrition, and the potential creation of a National Institute of Nutrition at the NIH.To watch this episode, visit our YouTube channel.To read the full transcript from this OmegaMatters episode, visit https://omegaquant.com/omegamatters-broadcasts/.To learn more about omega-3 testing, visit: https://omegaquant.com/omega-3-index-complete/