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Dr. Darwin R. Labarthe
Darwin Labarthe is currently Director, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Department of Health and Human Services. |
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Dr. Labarthe received the A.B. degree in history from Princeton University in 1961, the M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1965 and the M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 and 1974, respectively. His postgraduate medical training was in internal medicine (Washington University, St. Louis) and general preventive medicine (Berkeley), in which he was certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in 1970.
His professional activities over three decades were based primarily in the University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston (1970-73 and 1977-1999). In January 2000 he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2000-present). There he has led the development and implementation the long-range public health strategic plan, A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke.
Dr. Labarthe’s research and teaching activities have been primarily in the area of cardiovascular diseases and their prevention, especially the early development of the cardiovascular risk factors in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. He was founder and for 25 years directed the US Ten-Day Seminars on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and is Co-Director of the International Ten-Day Teaching Seminars on Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, now in its 38th year. He has published more than 175 research articles and book chapters and the textbook, Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Global Challenge (Aspen Publishers, 1998). |
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