Albert Hofman
Preventive Cardiology
Harvard University
About
Albert Hofman works in Preventive Cardiology affiliated with Harvard University.
Albert Hofman is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He previously served as chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at Erasmus Medical Center from 1988 to 2016. He initiated the Rotterdam Study, a large cohort study examining risk factors for cardiovascular and other age-related diseases.
Research focus
Cardiovascular Disease PreventionHypertension StudiesAtrial Fibrillation EpidemiologyArterial Stiffness and Vascular RiskStroke and Myocardial Infarction Risk Factors
Impact
2,079 pubs · 194,223 cites · h-index 208
Training
PhD
Erasmus University Rotterdam
1983
MD
University of Groningen
1976
Affiliations
Work Experience
Chair of the Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · 2016 - Present
Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · 2016 - Present
Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology
Erasmus Medical Center · 1988 - 2016
Science Director
Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences · 1990 - 2015