Julie Buring
|
 |
Julie Buring
Professor in the Department of
Epidemiology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The primary focus of Dr.
Buring’s research is the epidemiology of chronic
diseases, primarily cardiovascular disease and cancer,
and especially among women. Dr. Buring has been involved
in the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of
a number of large-scale cohort studies and randomized
clinical trials. She has served as the Principal
Investigator of the Women’s Health Study, a randomized
trial evaluating low dose aspirin and vitamin E in the
primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer,
as well as its current post-treatment extended
follow-up; co-Investigator of the Physicians' Health
Study II, evaluating the preventive roles of vitamin E,
vitamin C, beta-carotene, and a multivitamin; and
co-Principal Investigator of VITAL, an ongoing trial of
vitamin E and fish oil in the primary prevention of
cardiovascular disease and cancer among 20,000 men and
women.
Dr. Buring is actively
involved in the teaching and training of students and
fellows in epidemiology, both nationally and
internationally, and is co-Director of an NIH T32
training grant in the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular
Disease. She serves as Chair of the Institutional Review
Board of Harvard Medical School.
Education
Sc.D., 1983, Harvard School of
Public Health
M.S. (Biostatistics), 1975,
University of Washington, Seattle
B.A. (Mathematics), 1971,
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
|
|
|
Last Update
12/28/2016 12:17:00 PM
|
|
|
|