F. Javier Nieto
F. Javier Nieto, MPH, MD, PhD, is the ICTR Assistant Director for Population Based Research. Also, he is the Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and a professor of Population Health and Family Medicine.
Dr. Nieto received his MD degree from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 1978. Between 1979 and 1985, he completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine in Spain and an MPH degree in Havana, Cuba. After a brief period working for the Spanish Government to develop primary health-care centers in a rural area in central Spain, he came to the United States to the Johns Hopkins University where he completed a Master’s in Health Sciences (MHS, 1989) and a PhD degree in Epidemiology (1991).
In 1991 he joined the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and served as an Associate Professor between 1998 and 2001. Dr. Nieto became chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at UW-Madison in January 2002. He also serves as director of the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) project, a novel infrastructure for population-based clinical, epidemiologic, and health services research.
Dr. Nieto’s main areas of research interest include cardiovascular disease epidemiology, markers of subclinical atherosclerosis, emerging risk factors for cardiovascular disease (homocysteine, inflammation markers, chronic infections), health consequences of sleep disorders and psychosocial stress. He is also interested in methodological issues in epidemiology and in the teaching of epidemiologic methods. Along with Moyses Szklo, he is co-author of a textbook on intermediate epidemiology methods (Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics, 2nd Edition. Boston, Mass, Jones & Bartlet Publishers, 2007).