Lisa  Staimez

Dr. Staimez leads epidemiologic and translational research to reduce health disparities in diabetes and other chronic diseases globally. Her long-term objective is to identify new strategies to prevent diabetes, particularly before the grim complications of the disease set in.

Dr. Staimez’s research integrates nutritional sciences, epidemiology, laboratory sciences, pathophysiology, and epigenetics. As a faculty member of the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Dr. Staimez’s work includes clinical and population cardiometabolic studies in the U.S. and in India. She is also a faculty member in the Emory Nutrition and Health Sciences program and teaches about metabolic processes related to diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Prior to coming to Emory, Dr. Staimez managed and evaluated programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including the WISEWOMAN program (Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for WOMen Across the Nation). She also assessed community health and the nutritional status of young children in Guatemala and El Salvador.

Areas of research include: heterogeneity in diabetes processes across populations, diabetes and cardiometabolic risk across the life course, diabetes in youth, and impacts of lifestyle interventions, particularly nutrition- and diet- based interventions on reducing chronic diseases.