Collaborators

Directory of All FHS Investigators and Collaborators

Hugo Aparicio, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Rhoda Au, PhD, MBA
Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Abraham Aviv, MD
Professor
Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

Alexa Beiser, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine
Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM
Framingham Heart Study
Associate Provost for Faculty Development
Boston University Medical Campus
Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Susan Cheng, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Echocardiography Laboratory
Framingham Heart Study
Framingham, MA
Chair, Women’s Cardiovascular Health and Population Science
Director, Cardiovascular Population Sciences
Director, Public Health Research
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Andrea Coviello, MD, MSE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

L. Adrienne Cupples, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Ralph B. D’Agostino, Sr., PhD
Senior Statistician, Co-Principal Investigator
Framingham Heart Study
Chair, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Boston University
Boston, MA

Serkalem Demissie, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Biostatistician, Division of Population Health and Data Science at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center [MAVERIC]
Boston, MA

Josée Dupuis, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Merrill Elias, PhD, MPH
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
University of Maine
Orono, ME

Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD
Cardiologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

R. Curtis Ellison, MD
Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

David Felson, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Caroline S. Fox, MD, MPH
Director, Metabolic Research
Framingham Heart Study
Associate Director, Center for Population Studies
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Phil Gona, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA

Robert C. Green
Professor of Medicine (Genetics)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Joel Henderson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Jayandra J. Himali, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Biostatistics
Boston, MA

Jennifer E. Ho, MD
Cardiologist
Boston Medical Center
Instructor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Gary Matthew Hunninghake, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115

Paul Jacques, ScD
Senior Scientist and Director
Nutritional Epidemiology Laboratory
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University
Boston, MA

Andrew D. Johnson, PhD
Investigator and Head, Biomedical Informatics
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Human Genomics Branch
Framingham, MA

Margaret Kelly-Hayes, EdD, RN
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Douglas Kiel, MD, MPH
Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center
Senior Scientist, Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Bernard Kreger, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Daniel Levy, MD
Director, Framingham Heart Study
Branch Chief, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Framingham, MA

Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD
Alexander Graham Bell Professor
Director, Framingham Center for Population and Prevention Science
Principal Investigator Framingham Heart Study
Section Chief, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology
Department of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Past President, American Heart Association
Boston, MA

Michelle T. Long, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Gastroenterology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Joseph M. Massaro, PhD
Biostatistician
Framingham Heart Study
Professor of Biostatistics and Mathematics/Statistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Nicola McKeown, PhD
Scientist
Nutritional Epidemiology Program
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University
Boston, MA

James Meigs, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Gary Mitchell, MD
President, Cardiovascular Engineering, Inc.
Holliston, MA

Joanne M. Murabito, MD, ScM
Director, Research Examination Center, Framingham Heart Study
Co-Principal Investigator, Framingham Heart Center
Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD
Professor of Rheumatology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH
Cardiologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

George O’Connor, MD, MS
Director, Adult Asthma Program
Framingham Heart Center
Boston Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Christopher J. O’Donnell, MD, MPH
Associate Director
Framingham Heart Study
Senior Advisor to the Director of NHLBI for Genome Research
Chief, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Human Genomics Branch,
NHLBI Division of Intramural Research
Associate Clinical Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Jose Ordovas, PhD
Senior Scientist and Director
Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University
Boston, MA

Joseph Polak, MD, MPH
Chief, Radiology
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Paula Quatromoni, DSc, RD
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Boston University
Boston, MA

Vasan S. Ramachandran, MD
Department of Population Health Sciences
Medicine, Division of Cardiology
School of Public Health
UT Health San Antonio

Sander J. Robins, MD
Laboratory Director, Framingham Heart Study
Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Jose Rafael Romero, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Elizabeth (Lisa) J. Samelson, PhD
Associate Scientist, Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Claudia L. Satizabal, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
San Antonio, TX

Jacob Selhub, PhD
Senior Scientist and Director
Vitamin Metabolism Laboratory
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University
Boston, MA

Sudha Seshadri, MD
Professor of Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA
Founding Director, Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor of Neurology
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
San Antonio, TX

Lisa Sullivan, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Robert Thomas, MD
Physician
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Connie Tsao, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Echocardiography Laboratory
Framingham Heart Study
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Katherine Tucker, PhD
Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Thomas Wang, MD
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Physician-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Jemma Wilk, DSc
Associate Director, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Lead
Pfizer, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Philip A. Wolf, MD
Professor of Neurology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Vanessa Xanthakis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Public Health
Boston, MA

Yuqing Zhang, MD, DSc
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston, MA