Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Health Behavior Research & Implementation Science)
Area of research
- Applying biomarkers in population studies to understand measurement error in diet; epidemiological studies of lifestyle (physical activity, nutrition & sleep) and cardiometabolic outcomes; designing diet interventions to mitigate cognitive decline.
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Location
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue Belfer Building 1312C Bronx, NY 10461
Professional Interests
Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., RD, CDN is a nutrition scientist with a background in anthropology. Her research focusses on how lifestyle measures such as diet, physical activity and sleep affect cardiometabolic and overall health and how objective measures such as biomarkers of food intake, accelerometry, and actigraphy can increase precision of measurement given the high level of error in reporting these lifestyle measures. In the diet arena she uses novel assessment methods such as ecological momentary assessment to assess multiple exposures of diet and cutting edge biomarkers of food intake such as doubly labeled water, blood concentration biomarkers and urinary measures of nutrients. This rich set of data at multiple time points along with biomarkers provide more information than a single shot assessment of diet. She has led or co-led studies ranging from a randomized controlled trial of diet and cognition for which she used ambulatory cognitive assessment to objective measurement of sleep and physical activity in population-based studies in middle-aged and older adults. She leads the first year nutrition elective at Einstein.