Rate My Professor Leah Cahill

Leah Cahill, RD/PDt, PhD, is the Howard Webster Department of Medicine Research Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University. She holds cross-appointments in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and serves as a scientist with Nova Scotia Health at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. Cahill earned a BSc in Human Nutritional Sciences from the University of Manitoba in 2005, completed a dietetic internship through the Manitoba Partnership Program in 2006, received a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto in 2010, and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in 2015. She is a registered dietitian and leads the Nutrition Outcomes Unit for Research…ish (NOURISH) research group, focusing on nutrition, cardiometabolic disease including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, risk factors, novel biomarkers, gene-environment interactions, epidemiology, dietetics, and patient-oriented research.