Dr. Pilar Guallar-Castillon MD, MPH, PhD is Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. A specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health via MIR (La Paz Hospital). Has spent more than 20 years teaching Public Health by participating in graduate and postgraduate programs. Also responsible for courses on nutritional epidemiology.

 

Her research activity has focused on the study of healthy behaviours and habits (HBH) especially in the field of cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology. Author of more than 180 publications that are mainly in the first quartile of impact factor in their categories.

 

She is currently interested in the influence of cooking methods and chronobiology in the process of suffering from cardiometabolic diseases.

 

Research collaborator in IMDEA Food Institute.