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American nutritional epidemiologist (1955–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martha Clare Morris (1955 – February 15, 2020) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who studied the link between diet and Alzheimer's disease. She led a team of researchers at the Rush University Medical Center to develop the MIND diet.
Martha Clare Morris | |
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Born | Martha Clare Chinn 1955 |
Died | Oak Park, Illinois | February 15, 2020 (aged 64)
Alma mater | University of Iowa Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
Known for | MIND diet |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Iowa Rush University Medical Center |
Thesis | (1992) |
Martha Clare Chinn grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois. She graduated from Homewood Flossmoor High School. She completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa, followed by a master of sociology at the same university.[1] She undertook her doctoral studies at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, graduating with an ScD.[2]
Morris worked with Denis Evans while completing her ScD and, in 1992, moved to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago with him. On Evans' retirement some years later, Morris became director of the Institute for Healthy Aging at Rush.[2]
Her research focused on diet, rather than just genetics, being a significant contributor to dementia, in particular Alzheimer's disease.[1][2] Leading a team of researchers at Rush, she developed the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet, commonly known as the MIND diet.[1]
Morris died of cancer at her Oak Park home on February 15, 2020.[2]
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