Jaakko Tuomilehto#
| Membership Number: | 6301 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3424-0745 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor Emeritus of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2016 - 2018 Chief Scientific Officer, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait
- 2011 - 2016 Professor of Vascular Prevention, Danube-University Krems, Austria
- 2000 - 2011 Professor of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 1987 - 2000 Research Professor, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- 1986 - 1987 Professor of Community Medicine, University of Kuopio, Finland
- 1983 - 1986 Head, WHO MONICA Project Data Centre, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- 1980 - 1982 Medical Officer on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, WHO, Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, Philippines
- 1978 - 1980 Senior researcher, National Public Health Institute, Epidemiology Unit, Kuopio, Finland
- 1972 - 1987 Researcher and Principal Investigator, the North Karelia Project, Kuopio, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Public health
- Hypertension
- Preventive medicine
- Diabetes
- Lifestyle
- Cardiovascular disease
- Epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Prof. M. Viswanathan DRC Silver Jubilee Oration Award in Diabetes, Madras, India
- 1998 Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology, American Diabetes Association, Chicago, USA
- 2000 Peter Bennett Diabetes Epidemiology Award, International Diabetes Epidemiology Group, Acapulco, Mexico
- 2001 Hans Chiari Memorial Lecture Award, Austrian Stroke Research Society, Krems, Austria
- 2002 UNESCO – Hellmut Mehnert Award on prevention of diabetes, Dresden, Germany
- 2002 Castelli Pedroli Prize – Camillo Golgi Lecture, European Association of the Study of Diabetes, Budapest, Hungary
- 2005 Frederick H. Epstein Memorial Lecture Award, Am. Heart Association, Washington, USA
- 2008 Epidemiologist of the year, Finnish Epidemiological Society, Tampere, Finland
- 2009 Laureate of the Khwarizmi International Award, Tehran, Iran
- 2010 Great Sheik Hamdan International Award in Diabetes Research, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 2011 Geoffrey Rose Award on Population Sciences, European Society of Cardiology, Paris, France
- 2011 Folksam Prize in Epidemiological Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2012 Evert van Ballegooie Memorial Lecture Award, Zwolle, the Netherlands
- 2014 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes, American Diabetes Association, San Francisco, USA
- 2015 Menarini Award/Joseph J Hoet Memorial Lecture Award, World Congress on the Prevention of Diabetes and Its Complications, Cartagena, Colombia
- 2016 GB Morgagni Prize and Gold Medal on Metabolic Disease Research, University of Padua, Italy
- 2017 David Kritchevsky Memorial Lecture Award, Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, American Heart Association, Portland, USA
- 2018 Claude Bernard Award and Medal, European Association of the Study of Diabetes, Berlin, Germany
- 2020 Prof. Donald McLarthy Diabetes Research Award, East African Diabetes Study Group, Entebbe, Uganda
- 2021 European Academy of Sciences and Letters
