Kelly Cho, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Luc Djoussé, MD, MPH, DSc
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jane A. Driver, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Clark DuMontier, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of Aging
Chief, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, BWH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Kerry Ivey, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ivey is a nutritional epidemiologist, clinical dietitian, bioinformatician, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS. She has served as PI of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (Australian equivalent of the NIH K award) and as MPI on a Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) grant. She is currently MPI on both an NHMRC ideas grant (Australian equivalent of an NIH R01) and another MRFF grant, and PI of a competitively awarded grant from the National Dairy Council. She is the Director of Nutrition for Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research Center (MAVERIC) and is the Study Director for Applied Integrative Analytics within the Million Veteran Program (MVP) Phenomics Domain responsible for developing visualizations of complex-systems analyses of MVP data. She will serve as MPI with Drs. Sesso and Orkaby for the WPRCC. For COMPASS, she will specifically oversee operations of the Scientific Leadership Core.
Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH
Geriatrician, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, VA Boston Healthcare System
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Frailty Research and Associate Director of Faculty Development
Dr. Orkaby is dedicated to improving the health of older adults, with a particular focus on prevention and healthy aging across the lifespan. Her research interests focus on identifying pharmacologic preventive strategies for cardiovascular disease and frailty. She is also supporting the inpatient Geriatric Internal Medicine service, serving hospitalized older adults at high risk for geriatric syndromes such as delirium, cognitive impairment, falls, or polypharmacy.
Alexandre Pereira, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Established the Human Genetics group at the Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology at the University of Sao Paulo, Heart Institute, Brazil. His research focuses on translational aspects of the genetic epidemiology and metabolomics of cardiovascular risk factors and heart failure in admixed populations, and collaborates with teams of health outcome experts in several ongoing large-scale projects aiming at identifying and characterizing determinants of complex phenotypes in admixed populations. These efforts capitalize on well-established epidemiological and patient-based clinical studies developed since 2012.
Andrea Wershof Schwartz, MD, MPH, AGSF
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Sesso is an Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH); Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), with expertise in nutrition, dietary supplements, biomarkers, genetics, and the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, plus the design and conduct of trials and epidemiologic studies testing the long-term effects of common dietary supplements. He is the Director of Nutrition Research and Co-Director of Hypertension Research at the Division of Preventive Medicine at BWH, and the Associate Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine. He is Chair of the Data Science Committee at the Division of Preventive Medicine. He is committed to Whole Person Health as demonstrated by his role as the Director for Nutrition and Supplement Research at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, jointly based at HMS and BWH. For COMPASS, he will specifically oversee operations of the Data Science and Modeling Core.
