Dr. Marianne Legato Biography

Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P., is a well-known academic physician, author, and speaker who has lectured all over the world. Dr. Marianne Legato is an expert in gender-specific medicine, which is the study of how normal human function and illness experience differ as a function of gender/biological sex. Dr. Marianne Legato is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Marianne Legato is the founder and director of Columbia University's Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine, as well as the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, Inc., which works with scholars all over the world to advance the science of gender differences. Dr. Legato has been featured on the national ABC show 20/20 in a piece about gender bias in women's health care. He is widely sought for by both professional and lay groups. She has been on ABC's Good Morning America, Good Day New York, The Joan Hamburg Show, The Today Show, Lifetime TV, and The Oprah Winfrey Show, among other local and national television and radio shows. For more than a decade, Dr. Marianne Legato has been a featured speaker at hundreds of seminars and conferences throughout the world. She recently served as president of the First International Congress on Gender-Specific Medicine in Berlin, Germany (February 2006), and she will serve as honorary president of the next two International Congresses on Gender-Specific Medicine in Vienna (2007) and Stockholm (2008). Dr. Marianne Legato has won several accolades for her contributions to women's health. Changing the Face of Medicine, a 2004 exhibit at the National Library of Medicine, featured her as one of 300 American women. The Marianne J. Legato Award in Gender-Specific Medicine was created by the Ladies' Home Journal every year. In the year 2006, In 2005, she was honored by the National Council on Women's Health with the National Council on Women's Health Award for exceptional service in gender-specific medicine. She gave the keynote presentation at the National Institutes of Health's Intramural Program for Research on Women's Health's first inauguration event in 2002. Dr. Marianne Legato began her work as a researcher studying the structure and function of cardiac cells. The American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health backed her research. The American Heart Association, New York Affiliate awarded her the J. Murray Steele Award, the Martha Lyon Slater Fellowship, and a four-year Senior Investigator Award. She received a prestigious National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award and served on the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's cardiovascular disease research section as well as the American Heart Association's Basic Science Council. She was most recently a founding member of the Advisory Board of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health. She is the co-chair of a task group that wrote the Office of Women's Health's 1999-2000 report, An Agenda For Research On Women's Health For The Twenty-First Century. With the release of The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Heart Disease, published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, Dr. Marianne Legato earned the American Heart Association's Blakeslee Award for the finest book written for the general public on cardiovascular disease.

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