Karen Glanz, the George A. Weiss University Professor in the department of biostatistics & epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and director of Penn’s Center for Health Behavior Research, has been appointed to the advisory council for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Dr. Glanz will serve a four-year term.

The NHLBI advisory council advises the secretary of Health & Human Services; the assistant secretary for health; the director of the National Institutes of Health; and the NHLBI director on issues relating to the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the blood, blood vessels, the heart and the lungs.