Epidemiology & Community Health
School of Public Health
Twin Cities
Award Year
2014
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
Identifying Novel and Modifiable Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
Pamela Lutsey is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist whose mission and passion is to identify potentially modifiable factors that influence cardiovascular disease risk, which could ultimately be cost-effectively intervened upon to reduce the burden of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in our nation. She is particularly interested in the role of low serum vitamin D and sleep apnea on the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, and has active research in those domains.