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Yoriko Heianza

General / Preventive / Lipids
Tulane University

About

Yoriko Heianza works in General / Preventive / Lipids affiliated with Tulane University.

Yoriko Heianza, PhD, RD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is also a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on diet, lifestyles, multi-omics, genetics, and cardiometabolic health, including gene-diet interactions and gut microbial metabolites in relation to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

Research focus

Gene-diet interactions in cardiometabolic diseaseGut microbiota metabolites and cardiovascular riskNutritional epidemiology of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and CVDMetabolomics and biochemical risk factorsPrecision nutrition and lifestyle-genetics interactions

Impact

321 pubs · 10,535 cites · h-index 49

Training

  • PhD in Medical Sciences (Endocrinology and Metabolism)

    University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences

  • MS in Human Life and Environmental Science

    Ochanomizu University, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences

  • BS in Human Life and Science (Nutrition and Dietetics)

    Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts

Affiliations

Work Experience

Assistant Professor

Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Visiting Scientist

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Research Assistant Professor

Tulane University

JSPS Research Fellow (PD)

Niigata University · 2014 - 2017

Publications