Robert Langer

Robert D. Langer, MD, MPH,is the Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, a Professor of Family Medicine (Las Vegas) at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and a Research Professor of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a family physician, a specialist in preventive medicine, and an epidemiologist with more than 25 years of experience in studies of cardiovascular disease, postmenopsausl hormone therapy, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, osteoporosis, cognitive function and dementia. An author of more than 180 manuscripts in the peer-reviewed literature, he has served as a principal investigator on more than 30 national and international clinical trials and observational studies. He was the Principal Investigator for the University of California Vanguard Clinical Center in the Women’s Health Initiative, served as Chairman of the National Investigators Committee early in the study, and then served as Chairman of the Observational Study Committee for the remainder of the primary study period. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a large 5 year grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health focused on developing clinical and translational research capacity at 13 universities across 7 states in the Mountain West region of the United States.

Dr. Langer graduated from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago in 1978, and completed an internship in Family Medicine at Overlook Hospital, an affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After several years in private practice during which he developed one of the first commercially successful electronic health records, Dr. Langer completed a residency in Preventive Medicine at the University of California at San Diego in 1988, concurrently obtaining a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology. Upon completion of those programs he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, achieving the rank of Professor in 2000. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Director of the Outcomes Research Institute for the Geisinger Health System in central Penssylvania, following which he founded the Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine in Jackson, Wyoming. He joined the University of Nevada School of Medicine as Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research in 2012, simultaneously accepting an appointment as Research Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Dr. Langer is a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Heart Association Scientific Councils, as well as a member of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology.