JoAnn E. Manson, MD PhD, Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH is Professor of Medicine and the Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Co-Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at BWH. An endocrinologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Manson has been Principal Investigator of the Boston site of the Women’s Health Initiative since its inception in 1993, P.I. of the cardiovascular component of the Nurses’ Health Study for more than a decade, P.I. of the Boston site for the KEEPS trial, and more recently, P.I. of the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL), which is testing the role of vitamin D and the marine omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. She is actively involved with translational research, including several large clinical trials and observational studies of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She has extensively studied the role of endogenous and exogenous hormones in relation to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, the role of biochemical and genetic markers in predicting risk, and the effects of vitamin D on diverse health outcomes.