Waltham,
Mass. – March 10th – JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., Dr.PH, Chief of the Division of
Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine
at Harvard Medical School, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical
Society as the 2017 recipient of the Women’s Health Research Award, an honor recognizing
a physician for outstanding contributions that advance women’s health research
in Massachusetts. She will receive the
award at the medical society’s Women’s Health Forum on April 21 in
Waltham.
In
nominating her for the award, her colleagues noted Dr. Manson’s ground-breaking
research that has made enormous contributions to women’s health” in the areas
of hormone therapy for menopausal women, nutrition, and the prevention of
chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Among a
number of administrative leadership positions, Dr. Manson is also the
Co-Director (and interim Executive Director) of the Connors Center for Women’s
Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Michael and Lee
Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor in
the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She
is the principal investigator for the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL
(VITAL), the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Center in Boston, and a number of other studies directed at women’s health, as well as the
author of more than 1,000 scientific publications.
Dr.
Manson is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College
of Epidemiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society, and
was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of
Medicine) and the Association of American Physicians.
The
recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Manson has received the American Medical
Women’s Association’s Woman in Science Award, the Distinguished Scientist Award
from the American Heart Association (AHA), the AHA Population Research Award,
the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and
the Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health from the
Women’s Health Congress. She was
previously honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with the Henry
Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health.
Dr.
Manson received her A.B. from Harvard University and her M.D. from Case Western
Reserve University School of Medicine.
She also earned an M.P.H. and doctorate degree, both concentrating in
epidemiology, from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She resides in
Beverly.
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