Associate Professor, Epidemiology
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Dr. Costacou is a nutrition and diabetes epidemiologist, whose research interest has mainly focused on the effects of potentially modifiable environmental (e.g. nutrition, obesity) factors and their genetic interactions on diabetes complication development. She started her career providing support for the Nutrition Coordinating Center of the DPP clinical trial and has since worked on large multi-center studies in the U.S. (IRAS, EDC) as well as in Europe (EPIC). She has published extensively on factors leading to the development of diabetes complications and has focused on gender interactions. Currently, Dr. Costacou is PI of a grant on the role of triglycerides on cardiovascular disease in type 1 diabetes.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst – BA, 1993
University of Massachusetts at Amherst – MSc, 1996
University of South Carolina Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health – Ph.D., 2001
University of Pittsburgh – Post Doctoral Fellowship in Diabetes Epidemiology, 2004
2021-present EPIDEM 2110: Principles of Epidemiology
2011-present EPIDEM 2185: Introduction to SAS
2007-2020 Diabetes Journal Club
Principal Investigator
A complete list of published work can be found in MyBibliography: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/tina.costacou.1/bibliography/40998574/public/?sort=date&direction=descending