National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins recently announced the appointments of Eric Dishman as the Director of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program and Matthew Gillman as the Program Director of the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO).
On April 25, Collins announced the selection of Matthew Gillman as the Program Director of the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). Gillman is expected to join the NIH in July.
A professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, Gillman has experience in the fields of epidemiology, pediatrics, and internal medicine. He is also known as an “international leader in cohort studies throughout the lifespan.” He has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator on several studies, including the Framingham Heart Study and the National Children’s Study.