April Carson

April Carson
Alma materUniversity of Georgia
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Scientific career
FieldsCardiovascular epidemiologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
Doctoral advisorGerardo Heiss

April Perry Carson is an American epidemiologist. She is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health.[1] Carson is director of the Jackson Heart Study.[1]

Education

Carson completed a B.S. in microbiology at University of Georgia. She earned a M.S.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.[1] Carson was a postdoctoral researcher in cardiovascular disease epidemiology at UNC.[2] Her 2005 dissertation was titled Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status across the life course and subclinical atherosclerosis.[3] Carson's doctoral advisor was Gerardo Heiss [Wikidata].[4]

Career

Carson was an associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health.[1] On September 20, 2021, she succeeded Adolfo Correa as director of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). JHS is the United States' largest and longest-running longitudinal study of cardiovascular health in African Americans.[5][6]

Carson has a history of studying the disproportionate effects of disease in African Americans.[7] As an epidemiologist at UAB, she has worked to identify and address the root causes of disparities associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.[3] She participates in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study,[8] which looks at the factors that contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease over adulthood in African Americans and non-Hispanic white Americans.[9] Carson served as a member of the study’s Publications and Presentations Committee and Laboratory Committee. She also served as chair of its New Investigators’ Committee, where she guided study operations, provided scientific expertise, and played a pivotal role in integrating early career scientists into the study.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "SOPH Associate Dean for DEI, Dr. April Carson, to begin role as Director of the Jackson Heart Study - School of Public Health | UAB". www.uab.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  2. ^ "April Carson, PhD MSPH - School of Medicine - Comprehensive Diabetes Center | UAB". www.uab.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  3. ^ a b Carson, April P.; Rose, Kathryn M.; Catellier, Diane J.; Kaufman, Jay S.; Wyatt, Sharon B.; Diez–Roux, Ana V.; Heiss, Gerardo (April 2007). "Cumulative Socioeconomic Status Across the Life Course and Subclinical Atherosclerosis". Annals of Epidemiology. 17 (4): 296–303. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2006.07.009. PMID 17027292.
  4. ^ Carson, April Perry (2005). Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status across the life course and subclinical atherosclerosis (Ph.D. thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 80721608.
  5. ^ a b "NHLBI announces new director of the Jackson Heart Study". National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. September 16, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2021-10-05.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ Cooney, Elizabeth (2021-10-05). "New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action". STAT. Archived from the original on 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  7. ^ Churchwell, Keith; Elkind, Mitchell S.V.; Benjamin, Regina M.; Carson, April P.; Chang, Edward K.; Lawrence, Willie; Mills, Andrew; Odom, Tanya M.; Rodriguez, Carlos J.; Rodriguez, Fatima; Sanchez, Eduardo (2020-12-15). "Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association". Circulation. 142 (24): e454 – e468. doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000936. PMID 33170755. S2CID 226303921.
  8. ^ Muntner, Paul; Lewis, Cora E.; Diaz, Keith M.; Carson, April P.; Kim, Yongin; Calhoun, David; Yano, Yuichiro; Viera, Anthony J.; Shimbo, Daichi (2015-05-01). "Racial Differences in Abnormal Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Measures: Results From the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study". American Journal of Hypertension. 28 (5): 640–648. doi:10.1093/ajh/hpu193. ISSN 0895-7061. PMC 4415060. PMID 25376639.
  9. ^ Carson, Peter; Tam, S. William; Ghali, Jalal K.; Archambault, W. Tad; Taylor, Anne; Cohn, Jay N.; Braman, Virginia M.; Worcel, Manuel; Anand, Inder S. (2009-12-01). "Relationship of Quality of Life Scores With Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes in the African-American Heart Failure Trial". Journal of Cardiac Failure. 15 (10): 835–842. doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.05.016. ISSN 1071-9164. PMID 19944359.
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