Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Email:Matthew_Gillman@hms.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 509-9968
Fax: (617) 859-9853

Staff Assistant: Paul Guimond

Matthew Gillman, MD, SM

Dr. Gillman is a Professor and Director of the Obesity Prevention Program in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. His research interests include early life prevention of obesity, asthma, and adult chronic disease; behavior change interventions to prevent obesity; and childhood cardiovascular risk factors. He directs Project Viva, an NIH-funded cohort study of pregnant women and their offspring, focusing on effects of gestational diet and other factors on outcomes of pregnancy and childhood. He participates in several other federally-funded studies of diet, activity, obesity, and cardiovascular risk in children and adults. He serves in leadership roles in the U.S. National Children's Study and the International Society for Study of the Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease. He is an active teacher of medical students and mentor to research trainees. Trained as a primary care internist and pediatrician, Dr. Gillman's clinical work is in preventive cardiology among children.