Thom, Thomas J. (b.1936)

Thomas Thom was educated at the Univ. of Minnesota and spent one year at its School of Public Health before joining the Heart Disease Control Program full time in 1965 as Public Health Analyst. Subsequently he has served until the present in the Epidemiology and Biometry program of the NHLBI.

His research has been in the forefront of trend analysis in the morbidity, mortality, and costs of CVD, providing particular insights on the decline in coronary deaths and its implications, and on gender and ethnic and geographic trends. He made early contributions to analysis of trends in congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hypertension and its control.