Dr. Lu Qi
Director
Tulane University Obesity Research Center
U.S.
Biography
Dr. Lu Qi obtained a medical degree in China and Ph.D. at Tufts University in the United States. He is now HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor of Epidemiology in Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Director of Tulane Personalized Health Institute, and Director of Tulane University Obesity Research Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on nutritional epidemiology, nutrigenomics, and nutrigenetics of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. As the Principal Investigator, he has led more than ten projects funded by NIH, American Heart Associations, and other funding agencies. He has published more than 370 scientific publications in peer- reviewed journals, including the high-impact journals such as N Engl J Med., JAMA, BMJ, Circulation, J Am Coll Cardiol., Eur Heart J., Nature, Nature Genetics and Nature Medicine. He has also written more than 10 book chapters and edited a textbook entitled ‘Gene-Environment Interactions and Human Diseases’. Dr. Qi’s current h-index is 94 (by May. 2021). Dr. Qi is a fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA), American College of Nutrition (FACN), and The Obesity Society (FOS).
Research Interest
nutritional epidemiology, nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.