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Carmen R. Isasi, M.D., Ph.D.

Carmen R. Isasi

Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Health Behavior Research & Implementation Science)

Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine)

Area of Research: Lifecourse epidemiology, pediatric research, health disparities in cardiovascular disease and diabetes, Latinx health, social determinants of health

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718.430.2950carmen.isasi@einsteinmed.edu

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Professional Interests

Dr. Isasi is a life course epidemiologist whose research focuses on socio-cultural and biological underpinnings of disparities in CVD and diabetes across the life span. Dr. Isasi is the Bronx co-PI of the NHLBI funded Hispanic Community Health Study (HCHS/SOL) and PI of the SOL Youth study, the offspring of HCHS/SOL participants. HCHS/SOL is the largest cohort study of Hispanics/Latinos adults living in the US (N=16,425, 4,000 from the Bronx). Dr. Isasi oversees the field center data collection activities and contributes to the scientific goals of the study. In HCHS/SOL she is developing a program to understand early life determinants of health and is building the lifecourse research infrastructure in the cohort. She has significant expertise in the intersection of social determinants of health and genomics that contribute to the biological embedding of adversities.

In addition to her research in HCHS/SOL, Dr. Isasi is Associate Director of the New York Regional Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR), core director of the Lifecourse Methodology core at the CDTR, and core director of the Lifespan and Special Population core at the Einstein-Montefiore ICTR. These activities aim to support Einstein-Montefiore investigators in translational research across the life span.


Selected Publications

  1. Suglia SF, Crookes DM, Kaplan R, Sotres-Alvarez D, Llabre MM, Van Horn L, Carnethon MR, Isasi CR. Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood Adversity in Parents and their Children’s BMI in the Hispanic Community Children’s Health Study/Study of Latino Youth (HCHS/SOL Youth). J Psychosom Res. 2020 Feb 5;131:109956. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.109956. [Epub ahead of print]  PMID:32044520
  2. Slopen N, Strizich G, Hua S, Gallo LC, Chae DH, Priest N, Gurka MJ, Bangdiwala SI, Bravin JI, Chambers EC, Daviglus ML, Llabre MM, Carnethon MR, Isasi CR. Maternal experiences of ethnic discrimination and child cardiometabolic outcomes in the Study of Latino (SOL) Youth. Ann Epidemiol. 2019 Jun; 34:52-57. PMID:31060896
  3. Potochnick S, Perreira, KM , Bravin J, Castañeda SF, Daviglus ML, Gallo LC, Isasi CR. Food Insecurity among Hispanic/Latino youth: Who is at risk and what are the health correlates? J Adolesc Health. 2019 May; 64(5):631-639. PMID: 30711363
  4. Gallo LC, Roesch SC, Bravin JI, Savin KL, Perreira K, Carnethon MR, Delamater AM, Salazar CR, Lopez-Gurrola M, Isasi CR. Socioeconomic Adversity, Social Resources, and Allostatic Load among Hispanic/Latino Youth: The Study of Latino Youth. Psychosom Med2019 Apr;81(3):305-312 PMID:30633066
  5. Kaplan RC, Wang Z, Usyk M, Sotres-Alvarez D, Daviglus ML, Schneiderman N, Talavera GA, Gellman MD, Thyagarajan B, Moon JY, Vázquez-Baeza Y, McDonald D, Williams-Nguyen JS, Wu MC, North KE, Shaffer J, Sollecito CC, Qi Q, Isasi CR, Wang T, Knight R, Burk RD. Gut microbiome composition in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos is shaped by geographic relocation, environmental factors, and obesity. Genome Biol. 2019 Nov 1;20(1):219. doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1831-z. . PMID: 31672155

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  • Now is a Time to Learn From Hispanic Americans

    The New York Times - June 27, 2020

    A column by Nicholas Kristof hails positive examples of Hispanic community members helping one another in difficult times, including the COVID-19 pandemic. He notes that Carmen Isasi, M.D., Ph.D., who studies LatinX populations, has seen Spanish-speaking churches in New York City offering food for those in need. Dr. Isasi is associate professor of epidemiology & population health and of pediatrics.

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