JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH
Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine
Co-Director of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology
Professor of Medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women's Health, HMS
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Contact Information
Phone: 617-278-0871
Fax: 617-731-3843
jmanson@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Dr. Manson, an endocrinologist and epidemiologist, is actively involved in women’s health research, including several large-scale clinical trials and observational studies of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Her research has focused on the role of reproductive and hormonal factors, lifestyle variables such as diet (particularly vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, and folic acid) and physical activity, and novel plasma and genetic markers as predictors of CVD and diabetes. Dr. Manson is Principal Investigator of the Boston center for the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the CVD component of the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, the Boston site for the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS), the Women’s Antioxidant and Folic Acid Cardiovascular Trial, and is one of the PIs of the proposed Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL), among other studies. She has published more than 600 articles in medical/scientific journals. Dr. Manson is the recipient of numerous awards, including the "Woman In Science Award” from the American Medical Women's Association, the Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health from the Massachusetts Medical Society; the Postmenopausal Cardiovascular Health Research Award from the North American Menopause Society, the International Prize “Premio Benessere Stresa” for “Women’s Wellbeing and Health in Midlife”, the International Menopause Society’s Henry Burger Prize, and was included in the National Library of Medicine's exhibit "History of American Women Physicians