I have served as a funded investigator and/or continue to collaborate and publish with collaborative groups nationwide, including the NIH-sponsored Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, Cardiovascular Health Study, the Women’s Health Initiative, and the Antihypertensive Lipid-Lowering to Prevent Heart Attack Trial. For MESA and CARDIA, I was involved with co-directing the CT reading center; these studies involve examining coronary calcium and other measures of subclinical atherosclerosis in relation to other cardiovascular risk factors and clinical events. My key publications have been in the areas of epidemiology and prognostic aspects of subclinical atherosclerosis, particularly involving coronary calcium and more recently other vascular calcification. I also have an interest in and have published in the area of cardiovascular risk assessment of persons with metabolic syndrome. I also work closely with, collaborate on publications, and provide guidance to two physician colleagues within my program, Stanley S. Franklin, MD, in the area of epidemiology of hypertension (with the Framingham Heart Study) and Hwa Mu Lee, MD in the area of pulmonary aspects of cardiovascular epidemiology, as well as with Shaista Malik, MD, PhD, who is medical director of the preventive cardiology program at the UCIMC cardiovascular center who I have mentored since she was a cardiology fellow.