Albert Hofman, M.D., Ph.D.

Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical

Epidemiology Chair, Department of Epidemiology

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Albert Hofman, MD, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) since 2016. Dr. Hofman was the chairman of the department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2015.

Dr. Hofman is the initiator of two population based cohort studies in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands: the Rotterdam Study (1990) and the Generation R study (2002). These studies have as shared features that they target multiple common diseases, have a very extensive and state-of-the-art assessment of the putative determinants of these diseases, and employ as much as possible new technologies to be applied in the setting of epidemiologic population studies. Dr. Hofman is also the initiator of the recently established Alzheimer Cohorts Consortium. His current research focuses on the intersection of public health and clinical medicine.

Read more about Dr. Hofman: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/albert-hofman/

Publications

Hofman A, Hazebroek A, Valkenburg HA. A randomized trial of sodium intake and blood pressure in newborn infants. JAMA. 1983;250:370-3. PMID: 6343656 Hofman A, Ott A, Breteler MMB, Bots ML, Slooter AJC, Harskamp F van, Duijn CM van, Broeckhoven C van, Grobbee DE. Atherosclerosis, apolipoprotein and prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The Rotterdam Study. Lancet. 1997;349:151-4 PMID: 9111537 Vermeer SE, Prins ND, den Heijer T, Hofman A, Koudstaal PJ, Breteler MMB. Silent brain infarcts and the risk of dementia and cognitive decline. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:1215-22. PMID: 12660385 Vernooij MW, Ikram MA, Tanghe HL, Vincent AJ, Hofman A, Krestin GP, Niessen WJ, Breteler MM, van der Lugt A. Incidental findings on brain MRI in the general population. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 1;357(18):1821-8. PMID: 17978290 Jonsson T, Stefansson H, Ph DS, Jonsdottir I, Jonsson PV, Snaedal J, Bjornsson S, Huttenlocher J, Levey I, Lah JJ, Rujescu D, Hampel H, Giegling I, Andreassen OA, Engedal K, Ulstein I, Djurovic S, Ibrahim-Verbaas C, Hofman A, Ikram MA, van Duijn CM, Thorsteinsdottir U, Kong A, Stefansson K. Variant of TREM2 Associated with the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease. N Engl J Med. 2013;368:107-116. PMCID: PMC3677583