Dr. Thornburg studies the developmental origins of health and disease and how it affects the population’s health and will speak at the Annual Luncheon on the Epidemic of Chronic Disease and Understanding Epigenetics.
He held the M. Lowell Edwards Chair of Cardiovascular Research and Professor of Medicine in the Knight Cardiovascular Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University for the last 20 years before recently stepping down. He currently chairs the Research Oversight Committee for the Genome–British Columbia program that studies epigenetic effects of the environment in children and chairs the External Scientific Board that oversees the National Institutes of Health program entitled “Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes.”
