Prof. Dr. James R. Hébert received an AB in Biology from Boston University in 1971. He received an MSPH in Environmental Health and Epidemiology from the University of Washington in 1980. He received an ScD in Nutritional Epidemiology from Harvard University in 1984. From 1989 to 1999, he was a Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the UMass Medical School. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor and Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the University of South Carolina. He also holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the USC School of Medicine and in the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has established strong collaborations around the world in the areas of public health, cancer prevention and control, and epidemiology and biostatistics as a nutritional and cancer epidemiologist. His professional focus for the past several years has been on developing and refining the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII™). He has spent considerable effort developing the DII®, which has now been established as an effective research tool and is now emerging into the marketplace for consumer access.