Rate My Professor Helen Hobbs

Helen H. Hobbs, M.D., is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1974 and her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1979. After completing an internship in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, she finished her clinical training and served as chief resident in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein before joining the faculty of UT Southwestern in 1987.

Dr. Hobbs is Director of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, which serves as the Center for Human Genetics at UT Southwestern, and Director of the Dallas Heart Study, a longitudinal, multiethnic, population-based study of Dallas County. Her research focuses on defining the genetic determinants of plasma lipid levels and cardiovascular risk, including identification of genetic variations that confer susceptibility or resistance to fatty liver disease. She holds the Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiology Research. Dr. Hobbs is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Her honors include the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine, the Anitschkow Prize, and the Gerald D. Auerbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research.