Professional Bio
Douglas C. Heimburger, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As VIGH’s Associate Director for Education and Training from 2009 to 2019, Dr. Heimburger directed VIGH’s education and training programs for Vanderbilt students and trainees as well as research training opportunities for doctoral and postdoctoral trainees from low- and middle-income countries. These included co-creation and co-direction of the Global Health Track in Vanderbilt’s Master of Public Health Program and the Vanderbilt Training Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer. He still co-directs the UNZA-Vanderbilt Partnership for HIV-NCD Research (UVP), the Vanderbilt-Zambia Cancer Research Training Program, and the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows. His principal research interests are nutritional influences on HIV treatment outcomes, including non-communicable conditions, in African adults, and global health education and training.
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Education
MD - Vanderbilt University, 1978
Residency - Internal Medicine - Saint Louis University, 1981
Fellowship - NIH Clinical Nutrition Research Unit Fellowship - University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1982
MS - Nutrition Sciences - University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1987
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2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307