F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD

 

F. Javier Nieto is the chair of the department of Population Health Sciences. He received his MD degree from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 1978. Between 1979 and 1985 he completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine in Spain and an MPH degree in Havana, Cuba. After a brief period working for the Spanish Government in developing primary health care centers in a rural area in central Spain, he came to the United States, to the Johns Hopkins University where he completed a Master in Health Science (MHS, 1989) and a Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology (1991). In 1991 he joined the faculty of the department of Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and served as an Associate Professor between 1998 and 2001. Between 1993 and 2001, he served as a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology. He joined the department of Population Health Sciences at UW in January 2002. Dr. Nieto’s main areas of research interest include cardiovascular disease epidemiology, markers of subclinical atherosclerosis, emerging risk factors for cardiovascular disease (homocysteine, inflammation markers, chronic infections), health consequences of sleep disorders and psychosocial stress. He is also interested in methodological issues in epidemiology and in the teaching of epidemiologic methods. Along with Moyses Szklo, he is co-author of a textbook on intermediate epidemiology methods (Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics, 2nd Edition. Boston, Mass, Jones & Bartlet Publishers, 2007). In 2003, Javier Nieto joined the Madison Symphony Orchestra Choir and the Madison Opera Choir, where he sings with the bass section. Affiliations/Associations: American College of Epidemiology (Board of Directors member) American Society of Epidemiology (Elected member) American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (Fellow) American Public Health Association Society for Epidemiologic Research Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (Spanish Epidemiologic Society) Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria (Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Services Administration) Representative Publications (from about 160): Shankar A, Klein R, Klein BEK, Nieto FJ, Moss SE. Relationship between low-normal blood pressure and kidney disease in type 1 diabetes. Hypertension 2007;49:48-54. Gottlieb DJ, Redline S, Nieto FJ, Baldwin CM, Newman AB, Resnick HE, Punjabi NM.  Association of usual sleep time with hypertension: The Sleep Heart Health Study. Sleep 2006;29:1009-14. Ranjit N, Diez-Roux AV, Chambless LE, Jacobs D, Nieto FJ, Szklo M. Socioeconomic differences in progression of carotid intima-media thickness in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.  Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2006;26:411-6. Newman AB, Goster G, Givelber R, Nieto FJ, Redline S, Young T. Progression and regression of sleep disordered breathing with changes in weight: The Sleep Heart Health Study. Arch Intern Med 2005;165:2408-13. Nieto FJ, Herrington DM, Redline S, Benjamin E, Robbins JA. Sleep apnea and markers of endothelial function in a large community sample of elderly adults. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004;164:354-60. Ding J, Eigenbrodt ML, Mosley TH, Hutchinson RG, Folsom AR, Harris TB; Nieto FJ. Alcohol intake and cerebral abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging in a community-based population of middle-aged adults: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Stroke 2004;35:16-21. Chambless LE, Folsom AR, Sharrett AR, Sorlie PD, Couper D, Szklo M, Nieto FJ. Coronary Heart Disease Risk Prediction in The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. J Clin Epidemiol 2003;56:880-90. Nieto FJ. The epidemiology of self-deprecation. Int J Epidemiol 2002; 31:1124-7. Diez Roux AV, Merkin SS, Arnett D, Chambless LD, Massing M, Nieto FJ, et al. Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 2001;345:99-106. Nieto FJ, Iribarren C, Gross MD, Comstock GW, Cutler RG. Uric acid and serum antioxidant capacity: A reaction to atherosclerosis? Atherosclerosis 2000;148:131-9. Nieto FJ, Young T, Lind B, Shahar E, Samet JM, Redline S, D'Agostino RB, Newman AB, Lebowitz MD, Pickering TG. Association of Sleep-disordered breathing, sleep apnea, and hypertension in a large community-based study. JAMA 2000;283:1829-36. Nieto FJ, Folsom AR, Sorlie P, Grayston JT, Wang SP, Chambless LE. Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and incident coronary heart disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:149-56. Nieto FJ, Diez-Roux A, Szklo M, Comstock GW, Sharrett AR. Short and long term predictors of clinical and subclinical atherosclerosis by traditional risk factors. J Clin Epidemiol 1999;52:559-67. Nieto FJ. Viruses and atherosclerosis: A critical review of the epidemiologic evidence. Am Heart J 1999;138:S453-60. Nieto FJ. Cardiovascular disease and risk factor epidemiology: A look back at the epidemic of the 20th century. Am J Public Health 1999;89:292-4. Nieto FJ. Infections and atherosclerosis: New clues from an old hypothesis? Am J Epidemiol 1998;148:937-48. Nieto FJ, Sorlie P, Comstock GW, Wu K, Adam E, Melnick JL, Szklo M. Cytomegalovirus infection, lipoprotein(a), and hypercoagulability: An atherogenic link?. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 1997;17:1780-5. Nieto FJ, Comstock GW, Chambless LE, Malinow MR. Coffee consumption and plasma homocyst(e)ine: results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Am J Clin Nutr 1997;66:1475-6. Nieto FJ, Coresh J. Adjusted survival curves: A review and a new method. Am J Epidemiol 1996;143:1059-68. Nieto FJ, Adam E, Sorlie P, Farzadegan H, Melnick JL, Comstock GW, Szklo M. Cohort study of cytomegalovirus infection as a risk factor for carotid intimal-medial thickening, a measure of subclinical atherosclerosis. Circulation 1996;94:922-7. Nieto FJ, Alonso J, Chambless LE, Zhong M, Ceraso M, Romm FJ, Cooper L, Folsom AR, Szklo M. Population awareness and control of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Arch Int Med 1995;155:677-84.   Courses Taught: POP HLTH 717: Principles of Population Medicine and Epidemiology PHS 795: Principles of Population Health Science   Contact Information: F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD Helfaer Professor of Public Health Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin Medical School 610 Walnut Street, 707C WARF Madison, WI 53726-2397 Phone: (608) 265-5242 Fax: (608) 263-2820 Email: fjnieto@wisc.edu