Jose M. Ordovas

Jose M Ordovas, PhD is Professor of Nutrition and a Senior Scientist at the USDA-Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts where he also is a Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory. Dr Ordovas was educated in Spain at the University of Zaragoza where he completed his undergraduate work in chemistry, his graduate work in biochemistry, and received his doctorate in biochemistry. He then joined the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He continued as a Research Associate with Harvard Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital and then at USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University, Lipid Metabolism Laboratory which then led way to his current position.
Dr. Ordovas' major research interests focus on the genetic factors predisposing to cardiovascular disease and their interaction with the environment and behavioral factors with special emphasis on diet. He has participated in the Framingham Heart Study for nearly 20 years and is carrying out multiple cross-cultural studies to determine cardiovascular risk in different populations around the world, with special interest in the Asian Pacific and the Mediterranean regions.
Dr Ordovas has published about 400 scientific articles in peer review journals. Moreover, Dr. Ordovas has written numerous reviews and 4 books on topics surrounding diet and coronary heart disease, diet and genetics, and the pathophysiology of arteriosclerosis.
Dr Ordovas serves on several editorial boards and is active with several peer review committees, including the NHLBI Program Projects Parent Committee, and professional memberships. Throughout his career, Dr Ordovas has contributed his expertise to various global organizations and has received many honors for his scientific achievements. As such, Dr Ordovas was asked to serve as Nutrition Expert for the American Soybean Association, consulting for Mexico and Central America, was named Expert Consultant to the Singapore Ministry of Health, and is the recipient of the Francisco Grande Memorial Lecture for Excellence in Nutrition. His contributions to the atherosclerosis, nutrition and genetic research in Spain has gained for him the title of Member of Honor of the Spanish Society of Atherosclerosis. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of biotechnology and nutrigenomic companies as well as large National and International Nutrigenomic Studies. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies and member of the Life Sciences Research Office, Center for Emerging Issues in Science (CEIS) expert panel on nutrigenomics.
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