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.

Cahill maintains affiliations as a visiting scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her awards include the President’s Research Excellence Award in 2021, the Early Career Investigator Award from the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in 2021, the RIM Excellence in Mentoring Award from Dalhousie Medical School in 2021, Circulation’s Best Paper in Population Science Award in 2013, the Scott Grundy Fellowship Award for Excellence in Metabolism Research from the American Heart Association in 2012, the Outstanding Fellow Award from the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Harvard University in 2011, and a CIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award from 2010 to 2014. She previously received a Research Excellence Award at the Assistant Professor Level from the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University in 2019.