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Professor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic)
Dr. Victor Wenze Zhong is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and Chair for the American Society for Nutrition Nutritional Epidemiology Research Interest Section, and serves on the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Early Career Committee. Dr. Zhong graduated from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011, majoring in preventive medicine. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in nutritional epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2019. Between 2019 and 2020, Dr. Zhong was a tenure-track assistant professor at Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences.
Dr. Zhong conducts multidisciplinary research in epidemiology, nutrition, medical informatics and omics. The overarching goal of Dr. Zhong’s multidisciplinary research program is to advance our understanding of cardiometabolic diseases through investigating the etiology, progression, prevention and surveillance of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Zhong has published articles in leading journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Diabetes Care and International Journal of Epidemiology. Research findings have been reported by more than 300 national and international news outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and China Central Television as well as a NYT column article. His JAMA article in 2019 is the most talked about article of the year at JAMA and the Top 100 Articles of the Year (ranked No.23) according to the Altmetric among a total of 2.7 million research outputs in 2019. Dr. Zhong co-authored and reviewed relevant chapters for Diabetes in America, 3rd edition, a comprehensive reference book for diabetes published by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Dr. Zhong has received early-career investigator awards, postdoctoral fellowship and predoctoral fellowship multiple times from the American Heart Association and American Society for Nutrition.
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Thursday, June 16, 2022
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET
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