Leah Cahill, RD/PDt, PhD
Howard Webster Department of Medicine Research Chair, Associate professor
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Email: leah.cahill@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
Centre for Clinical Research
5790 University Avenue
Suite 225
Halifax, NS, B3H 1V7
Research Topics:5790 University Avenue
Suite 225
Halifax, NS, B3H 1V7
- risk factors
- nutrition
- cardiometabolic disease (especially cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes)
- novel biomarkers
- gene-environment interactions
- epidemiology and biostatistics
- dietetics (inpatient, outpatient, and public health)
- patient-centered research, patient-oriented research
- burden of disease
Affiliations
- Scientist, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
- Visiting Scientist, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Education
- Postdoc: Harvard University, 2015
- PhD: University of Toronto, Nutritional Sciences, 2010
- RD/PDt: Manitoba Partnership Program, Dietetic Internship, 2006
- BSc: University of Manitoba, Human Nutritional Sciences, 2005
Research
- Nutrition Outcomes Unit for Research…ish
Research Group Website: www.nourishteam.ca
direct link: https://sites.google.com/view/nourishteam
Publications
Selected awards
- President's Research Excellence Award, 2021
- Early Career Investigator Award, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, 2021
- RIM Excellence in Mentoring Award, Dalhousie Medical School, 2021
- Circulation’s Best Paper in Population Science Award, 2013
- Scott Grundy Fellowship Award for Excellence in Metabolism Research, American Heart Association, 2012
- Outstanding Fellow Award, Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Harvard University, 2011
- CIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award (ranked in the top 5), 2010-14