Stephen Juraschek, MD
I am a clinician investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. I see patients through my primary care clinic part-time, while the bulk of my work involves executing clinical trials focused on disease prevention. I spent over 10 years in training at Johns Hopkins University, completing my medical degree, a doctorate in cardiovascular disease epidemiology, internal medicine training through the Osler residency program, and a general internal medicine research fellowship. I have published over 100 papers (over half first-authored) from a diverse range of data sources. In addition, I have participated in the primary publication of 7 distinct clinical trials focused on nutrition and lifestyle interventions to improve clinical outcomes. I am currently the principal investigator on two NIH grants and am a national expert in blood pressure variability with recent co-authored a Scientific Statement by NHLBI on blood pressure measurement. I am passionate about the role of nutrition to optimize blood pressure and promote healthy aging in older adults. A critical factor of my work focuses on access to healthy foods by vulnerable populations in the U.S. My trial aspirations center on testing scalable interventions in nutrition that can address the soaring international hypertension epidemic.