Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

{{Short description|Spanish physician}}

{{other people|Miguel Angel Martinez}}

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| name = Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

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| birth_name = Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|9|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Málaga, Spain

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| nationality = Spanish

| field = Epidemiology

| alma_mater = University of Granada

| doctoral_advisor = Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez
Aurora Bueno

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| known_for = Mediterranean diet

| prizes = [http://www.americancollegeofnutrition.org/content/grace-goldsmith-award Grace Goldsmith Award]
[http://www.unav.edu/web/vida-universitaria/detallenoticia2/-/asset_publisher/eYU5/content/2013_04_11_far_miguel-angel-martinez-premio-investigador/10174 Best investigator in Nutrition in Spain]

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Miguel Ángel Martínez-González (born in 1957 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish medical doctor, epidemiologist, professor, and nutrition researcher{{cite web |first=Cristina G. |last=Lucio |date=May 30, 2008 |title=La dieta mediterránea también protege contra la diabetes |language=Spanish |url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2008/05/29/nutricion/1212083215.html|publisher=Unidad Editorial Internet}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2011/01/26/nutricion/1296070515.html?a=61a62bef435fd5ce6c7234b9413668eb&t=1296119434&numero= | title=Las grasas me deprimen}} He has been often a visiting scholar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Dept. Nutrition).

Martínez-González was the Founder and Chair (until September 2022) of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at University of Navarra at the Medical School. He was also the Principal Investigator of an Advanced Research Grant of the European Research Council for funding the PREDIMED-Plus trial.{{Cite web | url=https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results?search_api_views_fulltext=predimed-plus | title=Erc Funded Projects}}

Martínez-González has been also the Founder and 'Principal Investigator' (until June 2022) of the [http://www.unav.edu/departamento/preventiva/sun SUN cohort study],{{cite journal |last1=Martínez-González |first1=MA |title=The SUN cohort study (Seguimiento University of Navarra) |journal=Public Health Nutrition |volume=9 |issue=1A |pages=127–31 |year=2006 |pmid=16512960 |doi=10.1079/phn2005935|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Martínez-González |first1=M Á |last2=de la Fuente-Arrillaga |first2=C |last3=Nunez-Cordoba |first3=J M |last4=Basterra-Gortari |first4=F J |last5=Beunza |first5=J J |last6=Vazquez |first6=Z |last7=Benito |first7=S |last8=Tortosa |first8=A |last9=Bes-Rastrollo |first9=M |title=Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of developing diabetes: prospective cohort study |journal=BMJ |volume=336 |issue=7657 |pages=1348–51 |year=2008 |pmid=18511765|pmc=2427084|doi=10.1136/bmj.39561.501007.BE }} and he was (2006-2013) the Coordinator of the several centers included in the PREDIMED Network{{Cite web | url=http://www.predimed.es | title=Predimed.es}} (a large clinical trial assessing the effects of a Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of Cardiovascular disease.{{cite web |title=Tras ganar la guerra al tabaco ahora hay que erradicar los malos hábitos en la alimentación |language=Spanish |url=http://www.consumer.es/web/es/alimentacion/tendencias/2008/12/08/181968.php|work=Eroski Consumer|publisher=Eroski|date=2008-12-08 }}{{cite journal|first1=Miguel Ángel |last1=Martínez-González |first2=Dolores|last2=Corella|first3=Jordi|last3=Salas-Salvadó|first4=Emilio|last4=Ros|first5=María Isabel|last5=Covas|first6=Miquel |last6=Fiol|first7=Julia |last7=Wärnberg |first8=Fernando |last8=Aros|first9=Valentina |last10=Lamuela-Raventos|first10=R. M.|last11=Lapetra|first11=J.|last12=Munoz |first12=M. A.|last13=Martinez|first13=J. A.|last14=Saez|first14=G.|last15=Serra-Majem |first15=L.|last16=Pinto|first16=X.|last17=Mitjavila|first17=M. T.|last18=Tur |first18=J. A.|last19=Portillo |first19=M. d. P.|last20=Estruch |first20=R. |last9=Ruíz-Gutiérrez|title=Cohort Profile: design and methods of the PREDIMED study |journal=International Journal of Epidemiology|volume=41|issue=2|pages=377–85 |year=2010|doi=10.1093/ije/dyq250|pmid=21172932|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00653687/document|doi-access=free}} He is one of the best known worldwide experts in the Mediterranean diet and has comprehensively studied the nutritional determinants of obesity{{cite news|first=Cristina|last=Galindo| date=March 3, 2017|title="White bread is one of the main problems in the Spanish diet", Interview with Miguel Ángel Martínez González|language=English|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/02/27/inenglish/1488198584_687077.html|publisher=El País Semanal in English|newspaper=El País}} in the Spanish population. His self-help book in Spanish “Salud a ciencia cierta” (Planeta, 2018) provides useful tools to improve healthy habits and food choices.

He was awarded with the [http://www.americancollegeofnutrition.org/ Grace Goldsmith Award] (American College of Nutrition, 2013{{Cite web | url=http://www.americancollegeofnutrition.org/content/grace-goldsmith-award | title=Grace Goldsmith Award| date=2014-08-08}} and the [https://mph.wisc.edu/events/2016-rankin-skatrud-memorial-lecture-presented-dr-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-mart%C3%ADnez-gonz%C3%A1lez Rankin-Skatrud lecture (Univ. of Wisconsin, 2016)].{{Cite web | url=http://www.predimed.es/videos.html | title=Videos}}

In September 2016 he was appointed Adjunct Professor{{cite web|url=http://www.europapress.es/navarra/noticia-miguel-angel-martinez-gonzalez-toma-posesion-cargo-catedratico-harvard-university-20160831141752.html |title=Miguel Ángel Martínez-González toma posesión de su cargo como catedrático de Harvard University |access-date=10 September 2016 |author=Europa Press |date=31 August 2016 |language=es}} at the Department of Nutrition of Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is the co-PI together with Frank B. Hu of two on-going grants{{cite journal|title=Intervention Trials with the Mediterranean Diet in Cardiovascular Prevention: Understanding Potential Mechanisms through Metabolomic Profiling |date=9 March 2016 |pmid=26962184 | doi=10.3945/jn.115.219147 |pmc=4807639 |journal=J Nutr | last1 = Martínez-González | first1 = MÁ | last2 = Ruiz-Canela | first2 = M | last3 = Hruby | first3 = A | last4 = Liang | first4 = L | last5 = Trichopoulou | first5 = A | last6 = Hu | first6 = FB | volume=146 |issue=4 | pages=913S–919S}} funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).{{cite web|url=http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/research/reports/national-heart-lung-and-blood-institute-workshop-toward-testing-effects-mediterranean-dietary |title=The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop: "Toward testing the effects of a Mediterranean dietary pattern on cardiovascular and other diseases in the United States" |access-date=10 September 2016 |author=U.S. Department of Health & Human Services |date=9 August 2016}}

In 2022 he received the prestigious National Scientific Research Award "Gregorio Marañón" in Medicine and Health Sciences by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government. In 2024, he was named [https://www.diariodealmeria.es/almeria/miguel-angel-martinez-gonzalez-doctor_0_2002581158.html Doctor Honoris Causa] by the University of Almería (Spain).