معرفی
Linda M Gerber, Ph.D., is Professor of Population Health Sciences in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Professor of Epidemiology in Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Medicine. She has maintained continuous faculty appointments since 2005.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Colorado (1978)
- M.A., University of Colorado (1976)
- B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton (1973)
Research Interests
Dr. Gerber is a nationally recognized expert in hypertension epidemiology, focusing on how psychological traits, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and behavioral or genetic factors influence diurnal blood-pressure patterns and treatment responses. Her portfolio also encompasses traumatic brain injury, sodium-intake estimation, vitamin D deficiency, women’s midlife health, pediatric critical-care outcomes, and vaccine immunology.
Across more than 150 peer-reviewed publications appearing from 1980 to 2025, her work clusters into four major domains: (1) cardiovascular risk factors—particularly hypertension and sodium intake—in diverse populations; (2) neurocritical care and rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury, including neuromodulation trials; (3) women’s health at midlife, examining body composition, menopausal symptoms, and vitamin D status; and (4) pediatric critical-care epidemiology, emphasizing delirium, health-services utilization, and quality of care.
Grants & Projects
- Principal Investigator, ELASTIC Trial (NIMH, 2024–2025)
- Principal Investigator Subaward, CTSC-UL1 (NCATS, 2023–2025)
- Co-Investigator, multiple NIH-funded studies in neurocritical care and pediatric outcomes (2017–2027)
- Former Principal Investigator, NHLBI Neighborhood Study on ethnicity, SES, and blood-pressure rhythms
Contact
lig2002@med.cornell.edu
