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SCIENTIFIC BOARD AND MEMBERS
 JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, is Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine, as well as Co-Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She is the Elizabeth F. Brigham Professor of Women’s Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Manson received her B.A. from Harvard University, her M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and the subspecialty of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Her major research interests include preventive medicine and chronic disease epidemiology, particularly risk factors for cardiovascular disease and for diabetes in women. She is Principal Investigator of several grants from the National Institutes of Health, including the Women’s Health Initiative Vanguard Clinical Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Trial of Antioxidant Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease in Women, Risk Factors for CVD in Women, and Biochemical and Genetic Markers for Type 2 Diabetes, among others. Dr. Manson is a member of many professional societies and serves on the editorial/medical advisory boards of several medical journals. She has received numerous awards and honors, including being named one of ten Heroes in Women’s Health by American Health for Women magazine in 1997, one of the top ten “Champions of Women’s Health” by Ladies Home Journal in 2000, one of Boston’s “Top Docs for Women” by Boston Magazine in 2001, the Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health from the Massachusetts Medical Society in 2002, the “Woman in Science” Award from the American Medical Women’s Association in 2003, election to membership in the Association of American Physicians in 2005, and the Harvard College Women’s Professional Achievement Award in 2006. She has published more than 600 articles in the medical literature, and is the editor-in-chief of the textbook, Prevention of Myocardial Infarction, published in 1996 by Oxford University Press, and author of The 30-Minute Fitness Solution (Harvard University Press, 2001), and Hot Flashes, Hormones, & Your Health (McGraw-Hill, 2006). She has also edited or co-edited six other textbooks. Dr. Manson was recently one of the physicians featured in the National Library of Medicine’s exhibition, “History of American Women Physicians”, in Bethesda, Maryland. The focus of Dr. Manson’s research has been women's health, particularly the role of lifestyle factors, diet, antioxidant and other micronutrient supplementation, and hormone replacement therapy as predictors of cardiovascular disease in women. Other major interests include the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its vascular complications, as well as assessment of endocrinologic predictors of breast cancer. Utilizing epidemiologic methods in large-scale prospective cohort studies and randomized clinical trials, Dr. Manson has assessed the role of several lifestyle factors and therapeutic interventions in the prevention of chronic disease in women. She has studied extensively the role of moderate-intensity exercise (including brisk walking) as compared with vigorous exercise in the prevention of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer in women. She has also been actively involved in studies of biomarker and genetic predictors of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She 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 Cardiovascular Study, and the Women’s Health Study. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Collège International de Recherche Servier |
