Alice H. Lichtenstein

Senior Scientist and Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at Tufts HNRCA. Long-standing contributor to the American Heart Association scientific statements on dietary fats, cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, and author of clinical nutrition guidelines that are the reference for cardiology practice in the United States.

Why she matters here

Lichtenstein represents the guideline-drafting wing of nutritional science: the wing that translates evidence into public and clinical recommendation. It is precisely at this interface that the argument on reference ranges and physiological targets is either registered or lost. The resource’s engagement with mainstream nutrition necessarily runs through the people whose signatures appear on the documents that reach clinicians.