Saverio Stranges

Biography

Saverio Stranges has been recently appointed as Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, at Western University. He is also Scientific Advisor of the Department of Population Health at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (2015-current). Previously, he was an Associate Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology in the Division of Health Sciences at the University of Warwick Medical School (2006-2015). Dr Stranges is originally from Italy, where he completed his medical school (1996) and specialty training in Preventive/Public Health Medicine (2000). Thereafter, he moved to the US, where he completed his PhD in Epidemiology and Environmental Health in the Department of Social & Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2004, where he also began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in 2005, before moving to the UK. Throughout his career, Dr Stranges has been involved in several international epidemiological projects, clinical trials, secondary data analyses and systematic review work, and has published extensively in the area of chronic disease epidemiology, with over 140 publications as scientific articles, reviews and book chapters. His published work derives from several population-based studies and clinical trials around the world. Over the years, Dr Stranges has developed substantial expertise in the evaluation of observational and clinical trial data and secondary data analysis of large datasets. His research has received international media attention. He is member of numerous editorial boards for scientific international journals, and has received a number of international prizes for his work on nutritional aspects of cardio-metabolic disease prevention

Research Interest

 Dentistry