Contact Information
Department of Nutrition, Simmons College
Science Building S334b
300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
617-521-2712
fax: 617-521-3137
fung@simmons.edu

Education
Cornell University, BS 1991, MS 1994
Harvard University, DSc 2000
Yale-New Haven Hospital, Dietetic Internship 1993

Teaching Responsibilities
Undergraduate level

• NTR 331 Metabolism/Human Nutrition
• NTR 334 Pathophysiology/Medical Nutrition Therapy
• NTR 111/112 Fundamentals of Nutrition

• GSHS 410 Reseach Methods
• GSHS 453 Life-cycle Nutrition

Research Interests
My research focus is in the area of nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases. I study the association between dietary factors, nutrients, and foods, and their relationship with diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Selected publications

A prospective study of whole grain intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in men, TT Fung, FB Hu, MA Pereira, S Liu, MJ Stampfer, GA Colditz, WC Willett, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002 (in press)

Vitamins and carotenoids intake and the risk of basal cell carcinoma of the skin in women (United States), TT Fung, DJ Hunter, D Spiegelman, GA Colditz, FE Speizer, WC Willett, Cancer Causes and Control, 2002 (in press)

Dietary patterns and the risk of coronary heart disease in women, TT Fung, WC Willett, MJ Stampfer, JE Manson, FB Hu, Archives of Internal Medicine, 161:1857-1862, 2001

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