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Women's Health: Not for Women Only
Marianne J. Legato
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| Marianne J. Legato |
 Marianne J. Legato, M.D., serves as a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is also the founder/director of the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University. One of the nation's leading advocates for women's health, she was a charter member of the Advisory Committee of the Office of Research on Women's Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and co-chair of that office's Task Force on Research on Women's Health for the twenty-first century. Legato also chaired the Sixth Annual Congress on Women's Health in Washington, DC, in 1998. She has served on NIH cardiovascular study sections and was a director of the American Heart Association's New York affiliate as well as a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine. Legato has published numerous articles and books, and she serves on the editorial boards of several magazines. Her book, The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Heart Disease, won the American Heart Association's Blakeslee Award. Her most recent awards include being named a "Health Hero" by American Health for Women and "The Woman That Makes a Difference" by the New York Women's Medical Association for 1997.
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