WCRF International Grant panel member

Professor Michael F LEITZMANN
Head, Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine
Regensburg University Medical Center, Germany

http://www.uniklinikum-regensburg.de/e/departments/epidemiology/index.php

Professor Michael Leitzmann is Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He holds an MD from the University of Berlin and an MPH in Quantitative Methods and a doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. His main research interests include the interrelationships between physical activity, body size, and diet and the development and prognosis of chronic disease, particularly cancer. Prior to his appointment at Regensburg University, he was an investigator at the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, where he served as co-principal investigator of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, a prospective cohort of over 500,000 U.S. women and men.