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Dr. Frank Sacks is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of cardiovascular disease prevention in the nutrition department at Harvard's School of Public Health. He is a senior physician in the cardiology division and the Channing Laboratory at Brigham & Women's Hospital.

A member of the American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee since 2000, Dr. Sacks became the committee's vice chair in 2008 and will serve in this capacity until 2010, at which time he will assume the committee's chairmanship through 2012. He is an associate editor of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Lipid Research and Nutrition Journal Biomed Central. He is chair of the steering committee for the DASH-Sodium Trial and the PoundsLost Trial, and a panel member of the National Institute of Health's National Cholesterol Education Program ATP-IV, and Lifestyle Working Group.

Dr. Sacks earned his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physician & Surgeons, completed his residency at University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, and then served as a research fellow in medicine at Harvard.