Dr. Teri Manolio is Director of the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health, and Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI, for Population Genomics. She received her M.D. from the University of Maryland in 1980 and her Ph.D. in human genetics and genetic epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. She joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 1987 where she was heavily involved in large-scale cohort studies such as the Cardiovascular Health Study and the Framingham Heart Study. She moved to NHGRI in 2005 to lead efforts in applying genomic technologies to population research, including the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) and the Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI).

Dr. Manolio also maintains an active appointment on the in-patient medical service of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda and on the faculty of the University Services University of the Health Sciences as Professor of Medicine. She is the author of over 180 original research papers and has research interests in the epidemiology of subclinical cardiovascular disease, ethnic differences in disease risk, and genome-wide association studies of complex diseases.

Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI, for Population Genomics
Director, Office of Population Genomics

National Human Genome Research Institute
Building 31, Rm. 4B-09
31 Center Drive, MSC 2154
Bethesda, MD 20892-2154

Phone: 301-402-2915
Fax: 301-402-0837
manolio@nih.gov
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