Reading Time: 3 minutes The over-treatment of risk factors for heart attacks and strokes is doing more harm than good
Author: John Frank
Dr. John Frank is former director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy in Edinburgh, Scotland. He also holds a Chair in Public Health Research and Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
Frank was the founding director of research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 until 1997, and was a senior scientist at the Institute until 2008. Frank was also a fellow with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Population Health Program.