Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

For other people named Miguel Angel Martinez, see Miguel Angel Martinez (disambiguation).
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González
Born Miguel Ángel Martínez-González
(1957-09-11)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.[1][2] 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.[3]

Martínez-González is also the 'Principal Investigator' of the SUN cohort study,[4][5] and he was (2006-2013) the Coordinator of the several centers included in the PREDIMED Network[6] (a large clinical trial assessing the effects of a Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of Cardiovascular disease).[7][8]

He was awarded with the Grace Goldsmith Award (American College of Nutrition, 2013[9] and the Rankin-Skatrud lecture (Univ. of Wisconsin, 2016).[10]

On September 2016 he was appointed Adjunct Professor[11] 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[12] funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).[13]

References

  1. ↑ Lucio, Cristina G. (May 30, 2008). "La dieta mediterránea también protege contra la diabetes" (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Internet.
  2. ↑ http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2011/01/26/nutricion/1296070515.html?a=61a62bef435fd5ce6c7234b9413668eb&t=1296119434&numero=
  3. ↑ https://erc.europa.eu/long-term-effects-energy-restricted-mediterranean-diet-mortality-and-cardiovascular-disease-predimed
  4. ↑ Martínez-González, MA (2006). "The SUN cohort study (Seguimiento University of Navarra)". Public health nutrition. 9 (1A): 127–31. doi:10.1079/phn2005935. PMID 16512960.
  5. ↑ Martínez-González, M Á; de la Fuente-Arrillaga, C; Nunez-Cordoba, J M; Basterra-Gortari, F J; Beunza, J J; Vazquez, Z; Benito, S; Tortosa, A; Bes-Rastrollo, M (2008). "Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of developing diabetes: prospective cohort study". BMJ. 336 (7657): 1348–51. doi:10.1136/bmj.39561.501007.BE. PMC 2427084Freely accessible. PMID 18511765.
  6. ↑ http://www.predimed.es
  7. ↑ "Tras ganar la guerra al tabaco ahora hay que erradicar los malos hábitos en la alimentación". Eroski Consumer (in Spanish). Eroski.
  8. ↑ Martínez-González, Miguel Ángel; Corella, Dolores; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Ros, Emilio; Covas, María Isabel; Fiol, Miquel; Wärnberg, Julia; Aros, Fernando; Ruíz-Gutiérrez, Valentina; Lamuela-Raventos, R. M.; Lapetra, J.; Munoz, M. A.; Martinez, J. A.; Saez, G.; Serra-Majem, L.; Pinto, X.; Mitjavila, M. T.; Tur, J. A.; Portillo, M. d. P.; Estruch, R. (2010). "Cohort Profile: design and methods of the PREDIMED study". International Journal of Epidemiology. 41 (2): 377–85. doi:10.1093/ije/dyq250. PMID 21172932.
  9. ↑ http://www.americancollegeofnutrition.org/content/grace-goldsmith-award
  10. ↑ http://www.predimed.es/videos.html
  11. ↑ Europa Press (31 August 2016). "Miguel Ángel Martínez-González toma posesión de su cargo como catedrático de Harvard University" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  12. ↑ American Society for Nutrition (9 March 2016). "Intervention Trials with the Mediterranean Diet in Cardiovascular Prevention: Understanding Potential Mechanisms through Metabolomic Profiling". Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  13. ↑ U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (9 August 2016). "The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop: "Toward testing the effects of a Mediterranean dietary pattern on cardiovascular and other diseases in the United States"". Retrieved 10 September 2016.


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