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Daniel Levy, M.D. Director E-mail Address: levyd@nih.gov Christopher O'Donnell, M.D. Associate Director E-mail Address: codonnell@nih.gov
Philip A. Wolf, M.D. Principal Investigator E-mail Address: pawolf@bu.edu Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr., Ph.D. Senior Statistician, Co-Principal Investigator E-mail Address: ralph@bu.edu William B. Kannel, M.D., M.P.H. Senior Investigator E-mail Address: wkannel@bu.edu Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., Sc.M. Director of the Vascular Laboratory, Co-Principal Investigator E-mail Address: emelia@bu.edu Joanne Murabito, M.D., Sc.M. Clinic Director E-mail Address: murabito@bu.edu Framingham Home Page NHLBI Home Page National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Investigators Daniel Levy, M.D. Director Dr. Daniel Levy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at University Hospital in Boston and a cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Levy joined the Framingham Heart Study in 1984 and took over as Director after Dr. William P. Castelli retired in 1995. Dr. Levy has published over 125 articles in leading medical journals. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Medicine. In 1995 Dr. Levy was a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director's Award for his research achievements at the Framingham Heart Study. Christopher O'Donnell, M.D. Associate Director Dr. Christopher O'Donnell received his undergraduate degree from Brown University, his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and his public health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as a cardiovascular epidemiology fellowship. Thereafter, he continued on staff in the Department of Medicine (Cardiology and Preventive Medicine) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 1996, Dr. O'Donnell joined the Framingham Heart Study as a Medical Officer of the NHLBI. In 2002, he was appointed Associate Director of the Heart Study and Co-Chair of its Genetic Steering Committee. He is director of cardiac CT scanning and other subclinical imaging studies. His other research focus is genetic epidemiology of clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease. Dr. O'Donnell has published over 75 peer reviewed articles and chapters. He is also a staff cardiologist in the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. In 2000, Dr. O'Donnell was a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Award of Merit for his research achievements at the Framingham Heart Study. Boston University Investigators Philip A. Wolf, M.D. Professor of Neurology, Principal Investigator Dr. Philip A. Wolf received his medical degree from the State University of New York College of Medicine at Syracuse, and completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is Professor of Neurology and Research Professor of Medicine in epidemiology and preventive medicine at Boston University School of Public Health, and Senior Visiting Neurologist at Boston Medical Center where he is Director of the Cerebrovascular Disease Section. He received a Jacob A. Javits Neuroscience Award from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke in 1992. The same year, he was also the first recipient of The Humana Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, and in 1996 he received the Mihara Award from the International Stroke Society. Dr. Wolf has published on a wide range of neurology-related topics, primarily stroke, authoring or co-authoring over 300 refereed articles, book chapters, and abstracts. His research has appeared in such journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Neurology, Stroke, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology. His numerous professional association memberships include the American Neurologic Association, the American Epidemiologic Society, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Heart Association. Dr. Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr., Ph.D. Senior Statistician, Co-Principal Investigator Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr., is a Professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Public Health and Law at Boston University. His major fields of research are multivariate analysis, longitudinal studies, epidemiology, clinical trials, and outcomes/effectiveness research. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology section of the American Heart Association and twice recipient of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner's Special Citation (1981 and 1995). He has been affiliated with the Framingham Heart Study since 1981 and is presently Co-Principal Investigator of the core NHLBI contract and Director of Data Management and Analysis for the entire study. He has also been affiliated with the FDA since 1974 as an expert consultant to the Biometrics Division of the Bureau of Drugs, the Over-the-Counter Drug Division, the Cardiovascular-Renal Drugs Division, and the Gastrointestinal Drugs Division. He has served on a number of FDA advisory committees and is presently the Chair of the Nonprescriptive Drugs Advisory Committee. He is co-author/editor of four books, on Factor Analysis, Goodness-of-Fit Techniques, Mathematical Models in Health Services Research, and Engineering Statistics. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biostatistica, and Statistics in Medicine. He is presently the U.S. editor of Statistics in Medicine. William B. Kannel, M.D., M.P.H. Senior Investigator Dr. William B. Kannel is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Boston University School of Medicine and Director of the Visiting Scientist Program at the Framingham Heart Study. He served as Director of the Framingham Heart Study from 1966 to 1979. Doctor Kannel received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. He is a board-certified cardiologist as well as a member of the American College of Epidemiology. He is an author or co-author of close to 600 scientific publications and is the recipient of many distinguished awards such as the Dana Award in Preventive Medicine, the Einthoven Award, the Gairdner Award, the CIBA Award for Hypertension Research, the James D. Bruce Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians, the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Health, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Georgia. Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., Sc.M. Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory, Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Emelia J. Benjamin received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University, and her master's degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Since 1990 she has directed the echocardiography laboratory at the Framingham Heart Study, and since 1993 she has been Co-Principal Investigator of the Framingham Heart Study. Since 1990 she has been Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University, where she is on the attending staff as a clinical cardiologist. Dr. Benjamin serves as a consultant to the NHLBI Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities echocardiography study on a minority population in Jackson, Mississippi, and as a member of the Endpoints Committee for a large Veterans Health Administration cooperative trial. Joanne Murabito, M.D., Sc.M. Clinic Director Dr. Joanne Murabito graduated from the University of Rochester in 1981 and received her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1985. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston University Hospital followed by a research fellowship at the Framingham Heart Study and a master's degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Murabito is currently Director of the Clinic at the Framingham Heart Study and Associate Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency at Boston University School of Medicine. 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