PCCSM Grand Rounds Guest Speaker: Dawn L. DeMeo, MD, MPH | Harvard Medical School

Dawn L. DeMeo, MD, MPH, is a Respiratory Epidemiologist at the Channing Division of Network Medicine and a trained Pulmonary/Critical Care Physician; she is an Associate Physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is currently co-chair of the Connors-MGB Research Collaborative for Women’s Health and Sex Differences and immediate past Chair of the Systems Genetics and Genomics section of the American Thoracic Society. Her primary research interests are genetics, epigenetics, and integrated networks as they relate to lung health and lung disease, and their intersections with sex and aging. To pursue her interest in understanding COPD susceptibility, including the role of genetics and epigenetics in early-onset COPD and sex differences, she has been the recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Lung Association and the Alpha 1 Foundation.

Dr. DeMeo’s vision includes streamlining effective multidisciplinary care for lung diseases through careful scientific investigations, with an eventual goal of designing and implementing genomic insights into diagnostics, therapeutics, and preventative strategies for COPD, informed by “Big Data” and Network Medicine approaches inclusive of age and sex aware approaches.

Organizer

Jonelle Kelner · jak464@med.miami.edu