Primary Prevention Insights

Dr. Jun Ma is an Associate Staff Scientist in the Department of Health Services Research at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute in California, USA. From 2003 to 2006 she was Research Director of the Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices at the Stanford Prevention Research Centre in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Before that she was a Research Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, which is also where she was awarded her PhD in Nutrition Sciences and Biometry. She also has an MD degree, specialized in Preventive Medicine, from the West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, P.R. China.

Dr. Ma currently leads an active program of research focusing on the prevention and control of a variety of chronic diseases and conditions, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, asthma, osteoporosis, and menopausal symptoms. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles on these subjects and contributed to the edited book “Sports Supplements” (2001). She has a role on numerous boards and in many organizations, including a Fellowship of the American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

Dr. Ma is interested in many aspects of preventive medicine and health services research, including innovative interventions for the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors such as obesity, new models of health care delivery in primary care settings, national patterns of outpatient quality of care, and racial/ethnic disparities in nutrition and health.

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