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JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., Dr.P.H.

professional background

JoAnn Manson, M.D., Dr.P.H., focuses on preventive medicine and chronic disease epidemiology, particularly risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer in women. Dr. Manson's research targets women's health and the role of lifestyle factors, diet, antioxidant and other micronutrient supplementation, and hormone replacement therapy as predictors of cardiovascular disease in women. Dr. Manson is one of the lead investigators on several landmark women's health studies, including the Women's Health Initiative, the Nurses' Health Study, the Women's Antioxidant and Folic Acid Cardiovascular Study, and the Women's Health Study.

Degrees:
Dr.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
M.D., Case Western Reserve
B.A., Harvard University

Associations:

• Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Co-Director, Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Elizabeth F. Brigham Professor of Women's Health, Harvard Medical School
• Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Principal Investigator, Women's Health Initiative Vanguard Clinical Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston funded by the National Institutes of Heath
• Principal Investigator, Trial of Antioxidant Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease in Women; Biochemical and Genetic Risk Factors for CVD in Women and the proposed Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial
• Principal Investigator of the Boston site for the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study.

Awards:

• International Menopause Society's Henry Burger Research Prize, 2008
• North American Menopause Society's Post Menopausal Cardiovascular Health Research Award, 2007
• Featured in the National Library of Medicine Exhibition "History of American Women Physicians", Bethesda, MD
• Harvard College Women's Professional Achievement Award, 2006
• Elected Member, Association of American Physicians, 2005
• Woman in Science Award, American Medical Women's Association, 2003
• Henry I. Bodwitch Award for Excellence in Public Health, Massachusetts Medical Society, 2002
• Top Docs for Women, Boston Magazine, 2001
• Champions of Women's Health, Ladies Home Journal, 2000
• Heroes in Women's Health, American Health for Women magazine, 1997

Publications:

• Editor-in-Chief, Prevention of Myocardial Infarction
• Author, Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health
• Author, The 30-Minute Fitness Solution: A Four-Step Plan for Women of All Ages
• Columnist, Glamour magazine
• Published over 600 articles in medical literature
• Edited or co-authored six text books