2024 GPM and EPI Mid Career Research Award and Lecture - Christy L. Avery, PhD, FAHA
Christy L. Avery, PhD, FAHA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Dr. Avery is a professor of epidemiology with tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she leads the cardiovascular epidemiology program area, co-leads the cardiovascular genetic epidemiology computational laboratory and is a Carolina Population Center fellow.
After obtaining an undergraduate degree in human biology from Michigan State University, Dr. Avery received a MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty as an assistant professor in 2011 after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As a cardiovascular and molecular epidemiologist, Dr. Avery wants to better understand how established and emerging cardiovascular disease risk factors operate across the lifespan and in diverse populations. To further her research goal, she conducts genomic, gene-environment interaction and causal inference research of cardiovascular endpoints and risk factors.
Recently, she extended her research interests to include lipoprotein (a), metabolomics, bioactive lipids and ‘omics more broadly.
Dr. Avery has received multiple awards, including the GPM and EPI Mid-Career Award from the American Heart Association, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award and the Sandra Daugherty American Heart Association Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular or Hypertension Epidemiology.