Professor, Department of Medicine
Physician, , Massachusetts General Hospital
James B. Meigs MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a primary care internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Director, MGH Division of Clinical Research’s Clinical Effectiveness Research Unit and an Associate Member, Broad Institute. His research interest is the cause and prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease using biochemical and genetic epidemiology and health services translational research approaches. In 2009 he was awarded the ADA’s prestigious Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Epidemiology. He is a senior leader of many major large international T2D genomics consortia, including MAGIC, DIAGRAM, AAGILE, CHARGE- and TOPMed-diabetes, NIDDK T2D AMP/CMD and the VA’s MVP cardiometabolic work group, and is the PI, co-PI or co-investigator on many NIH grants, currently including UM1 DK078616-13 TOPMed Omics of T2D and Quantitative traits and R01 HL151855-01 TOPMed Omics of CVD in T2D and Quantitative traits. He has formally mentored over 50 early career investigators, most of whom have remained in academic medicine, and is an MGH Institutional Research Mentor.