Jun Dai, M.D.,Ph.D.,M.Sc.

Dr. Dai a Professor at the Department of Public Health, Des Moines University College of Health Sciences. She received her MD and MSc at Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Peoples Republic of China (PRC), and PhD at Emory University, the U.S. She was a faculty member at Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in PRC and the Indiana University-Bloomington and the Division of Epidemiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the U.S. She received the Sandra Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease or Hypertension Epidemiology and the Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators from the American Heart Association. Her research has been supported by the American Heart Association and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. She authored and coauthored original research papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as Circulation, Circulation - Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, British Journal of Nutrition, International Journal of Cardiology, Genes (Basel), Behavior Genetics, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis Vascular Biology, Biological Psychiatry, etc. Dr. Dais recent overarching research aims to understand the environmental, epigenetic, and genetic role in and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying cardiovascular diseases and cardiometabolic diseases and disorders.