Harvard Professor Albert Hofman receives the title of doctor honoris causa of the NKUA’s School of Medicine
Albert Hofman, Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The award ceremony took place on Wednesday, 23 October 2024, at 19:00, at the Great Hall of the University of Athens.
Prof. Hofman is an internationally recognized scientific leader in the epidemiology of common neurologic and vascular diseases, in particular dementia and stroke. He was the initiator of pioneering studies on the role of vascular factors in the etiology of Alzheimer disease and a leader in initiating genetic studies of complex diseases in large populations. Dr. Hofman was instrumental in founding the genetic epidemiologic laboratory in the Erasmus Epidemiology Department in the late 1980s. His work has been based on the original Rotterdam cohort studies that he initiated, as well as the Generation R cohort studies that were later introduced in 2002.
Since 2016, he chairs the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Under his chairmanship, an MoU between Harvard and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) was signed in December 2023. The MoU formalized the long-standing collaboration between the Departments of Epidemiology at HSPH and NKUA, initiated by Prof. Dimitrios Trichopoulos who had served as chair in both Departments. The overarching aim of the MoU is to facilitate excellence in science by promoting graduate education in epidemiology and collaborative interdisciplinary research.
