JoAnn Manson, the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at HMS and Brigham and Women’s, was named to receive the 2021 Nanette Wenger, MD Award from the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. At the organization’s annual summit in July, Manson will receive the award and present the Wenger lecture. Her talk discusses the VITAL trial: How VITAL are vitamin D and omega-2s for cardiometabolic health?
Manson is chief of Brigham and Women’s Division of Preventive Medicine. As a physician epidemiologist and endocrinologist, her primary research interests include randomized clinical prevention trials of nutritional and lifestyle factors related to heart disease, diabetes, and other age-related disorders, and the role of endogenous and exogenous estrogens as determinants of chronic disease.
