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      <img src="/_resources/HermanTaylorRV.jpg" alt="Herman Alfred Taylor, Jr., M.D."></img>
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   <name>Herman Alfred Taylor, Jr., M.D.</name>
   <title>Professor</title>
   <department>Medicine</department>
   <title2>Director</title2>
   <department2>Cardiovascular Research Institute</department2>
   <email>htaylor@msm.edu</email>
   <phone>404-752-1545</phone>
   <location>Research Wing Room 228A</location>
   <education>
      <strong>MEDICAL SCHOOL:</strong>
      <br></br>Harvard Medical School 
      <br></br>
      <strong>Degree:</strong> Doctor of Medicine
      <br></br>
      <br></br>
      <strong>GRADUATE:</strong>
      <br></br>Harvard School of Public Health 
      <br></br>
      <strong>Degree:</strong> Master of Public Health
      <br></br>
      <br></br>
      <strong>UNDERGRADUATE:</strong>
      <br></br>Princeton University
      <br></br>
      <strong>Degree:</strong> Bachelor of Arts in Biology
   </education>
   <research>Clinical and Basic Research</research>
   <clinicalinterests></clinicalinterests>
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   </specialties>
   <boardcerts>Internal Medicine
      <br></br>
      <br></br>Cardiovascular Disease
   </boardcerts>
   <publications>
      <p>
         <strong>Taylor HA</strong>. Jackson Heart Study-Building a 21
         <sup>st</sup> Century Platform for Discovery, Service and Training to Address an American Health
         Priority. Ethn Dis. 2012;22(Suppl 1).3-6. [PMID:23156832]
         <br></br>
         <br></br>Liu, J, Hickson DA, Musani SK, Talegawkar SA, Carithers TC, Tucker KL, Fox CS, 
         <strong>Taylor HA</strong>. Dietary patterns, abdominal visceral adipose tissue, and cardiometabolic risk factors
         in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. Obesity 2013; 21(3):644-51.
         <br></br>
         <br></br>Tullos BW Sung JH, Lee JE, Criqui MH, Mitchell ME, 
         <strong>Taylor HA</strong>.  Ankle-brachial index (ABI), abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), and coronary
         artery calcification (CAC): The Jackson Heart Study. International Journal of Cardiovascular
         Imaging 2013; 29 (4):891-7.
         <br></br>
         <br></br>Subramanyam MA,  James SA,  Diez-Roux AV,  Hickson DA,  Sarpong D, Sims M, 
         <strong>Taylor</strong>
         <strong>HA</strong>,  Wyatt SB. Socioeconomic status, john henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans
          in the Jackson Heart Study. Social Science and Medicine. 2013;93:139-46.
         <br></br>
         <br></br>Clark CR, Ommerborn MJ, Hickson DMA, Grooms KN, Sims M, 
         <strong>Taylor HA</strong>, Albert MA
         <strong>. </strong>Neighborhood disadvantage, neighborhood safety and cardiometabolic risk factors in
         Afrincan Americans: Biosocial associations in the Jackson Heart Study. PLoS ONE 2013;8(5
         <strong>)
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            <br></br>
         </strong>Bidulescu A, Liu J, Hickson DA, Hairston KG, Fox ER, Arnett DK, Summer AE, 
         <strong>Taylor HA</strong>, Gibbons GH. Gender differences in the association of visceral and subcutaneous adiposity
         with adiponectin in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. BMC Cardiovascular
         Disorders 2013;13
      </p>
   </publications>
   <awards>
      <p>2014-2011: Councilor, Harvard Medical School Alumni Association 
         <br></br>
         <br></br>2014-2013: American Heart Association, Vice President Greater Southeast Affiliate
         Board of Directors
         <br></br>
         <br></br>20013: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood
         Award of Service
         <br></br>
         <br></br>2013: White House Champion of Change for Prevention and Public Health, Nominee
         <br></br>
         <br></br>2013-2000: Best Doctors in American Award
         <br></br>
         <br></br>2008: Black Enterprise America’s Leading Doctors Award
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   </awards>
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