I-Min Lee, MD, ScD
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Contact information:
Office address:
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-278-0806
FAX: 617-731-3843
E-mail: ilee@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Primary research interests:
Dr. Lee's main research interest is in the role of physical activity in promoting health and preventing chronic disease. This extends to characteristics associated with a physically active way of life, such as the maintenance of ideal body weight. She also is concerned with issues relating to women's health.
Selected publications:
Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Paffenbarger RS Jr. Physical activity and coronary heart disease risk in men: Does the duration of exercise episodes predict risk? Circulation 2000;102:981-986.
Lee I-M, Rexrode KM, Cook NR, Hennekens CH, Buring JE. Physical activity and breast cancer risk: The Women's Health Study (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2001;12:137-145.
Lee I-M, Rexrode KM, Cook NR, Manson JE, Buring JE. Physical activity and coronary heart disease in women: Is “No pain, no gain” passe? JAMA 2001;285:1447-1454.
Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Oguma Y, Paffenbarger RS Jr. Relative intensity of physical activity and risk of coronary heart disease. Circulation 2003;107:1110-1116.
Lee, I-M. Physical activity in women: how much is good enough? JAMA 2003;290:1377-1379.
Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Oguma Y, Paffenbarger RS Jr. The “weekend warrior” and risk of mortality. Am J Epidemiol 2004;160:636-641.
Lee I-M, Cook NR, Gaziano JM, Gordon D, Ridker PM, Manson JE, Hennekens CH, Buring JE. Vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer: The Women's Health Study: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2005;294:56-65.
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