Biography

Hanno Ulmer is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Epicenter Innsbruck. He holds degrees in Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences, and a habilitation in Biostatistics. His main responsibilities at the Medical University include statistical consulting of clinical research, teaching of medical students and his own research activities. His main research interests are in cardiovascular and cancer epidemiology. He has published extensively on the role of metabolic risk factors in chronic disease. His work is particularly associated with the Vorarlberg Health Monitoring and Promotion Programme (VHM&PP), one of the largest cohort studies in the world.

Hanno Ulmer chaired the Institute of Medical Statistics and Informatics from 2009 to 2024. He was President of the International Biometric Society, Austro-Swiss Region 2012-2013. He was the founding president of the Austrian Society of Epidemiology in 2014-2015. Additionally, Hanno Ulmer is currently the longest-serving active member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Innsbruck.

Selected Publications

• Ulmer H, Kelleher C, Diem G, Concin H. Long-term tracking of cardiovascular risk factors among men and women in a large population-based health system: the Vorarlberg Health Monitoring & Promotion Programme. Eur Heart J. 2003 Jun;24(11):1004-13.
• Ulmer H, Kelleher C, Diem G, Concin H. Why Eve is not Adam: prospective follow-up in 149650 women and men of cholesterol and other risk factors related to cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2004 Jan-Feb;13(1):41-53.
• Ruttmann E, Brant LJ, Concin H, Diem G, Rapp K, Ulmer H; Vorarlberg Health Monitoring and Promotion Program Study Group. Gamma-glutamyltransferase as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease mortality: an epidemiological investigation in a cohort of 163,944 Austrian adults. Circulation. 2005 Oct 4;112(14):2130-7.
• Linhart C, Talasz H, Morandi EM, Exley C, Lindner HH, Taucher S, Egle D, Hubalek M, Concin N, Ulmer H. Use of Underarm Cosmetic Products in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer: A Case-Control Study. EBioMedicine. 2017 Jul;21:79-85.
• Fritz J, Bjørge T, Nagel G, Manjer J, Engeland A, Häggström C, Concin H, Teleka S, Tretli S, Gylling B, Lang A, Stattin P, Stocks T, Ulmer H. The triglyceride-glucose index as a measure of insulin resistance and risk of obesity-related cancers. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Feb 1;49(1):193-204.