J. Michael Gaziano, MD
Adjunct Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine

MD, Yale University School of Medicine
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
BA, West Virginia University



Dr. Michael J. Gaziano, MD, MPH is an internationally recognized chronic disease epidemiologist and trialist. He received his MD from Yale Medical School and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.

At the VA Boston Healthcare System, he is one of the Director the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), a national epidemiology and trial center funded by CSR&D where he directs the epidemiology research center. He is national PI for the Million Veteran Program (MVP), a large project designed to enroll a million veterans into a large observational cohort with stored biospecimens. He also serves as the director of the Boston Geriatric Research and Education Center (GRECC). At VA Boston he runs a preventive cardiology program with an associated fellowship. He is the Chief of the Division of Aging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he is principal investigator for the ongoing Physicians' Health Study (PHS) II study, a large-scale trial of vitamins in the prevention of chronic disease. The Physicians’ Health Study cohort is comprised of 29,000 physicians who have been followed for up to 28 years. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Gaziano’s research interests include the epidemiology of chronic diseases, with a particular interest in the roles that individual lifestyle choices (diet, exercise, smoking), metabolic factors (obesity, high cholesterol, and hypertension), and biochemical and genetic markers play on the risk of coronary artery disease and stroke. Also of interest is the impact that vascular disease has on other organ systems. Recently, Dr. Gaziano has initiated a number of research projects to investigate the diverse nature of atherosclerosis. While atherosclerosis plaques form only in certain large and medium-sized vessels, the process of atherogenesis affects arteries of all sizes. For example, renal dysfunction, cognitive decline and osteoporosis-related fractures have been linked to various cardiovascular disease risk factors, suggesting a role for small vessel disease in vascular dementia, in abnormal bone remodeling and chronic renal disease. These projects are intended to explore the extent to which atherosclerotic disease in small vessels leads to these and other chronic conditions.

He has published over 350 original reports, reviews, book chapters, and books. He teaches advanced epidemiology and has mentored over 50 trainees. He is a contributing editor for JAMA.

VA Boston Healthcare System






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Physicians Health Study II: Prevention Trial of Vitamins
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Genomics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans
(PI)

Influenza Vaccine to Effectively Stop Cardio-thoracic Events and Decompensated Heart Failure (INVESTED)
(PI)

The Million Veteran Program (MVP) R&D#10286-C
(PI)

CSP Epidemiology Research and Information Center (ERIC)
(PI)

Veteran Genetics and Health Referent Cohort
(PI)



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  1. Sordillo JE, Dey A, Ho YL, Kosik N, Harrington K, Costa L, Muralidhar S, Hauser E, Gaziano JM, Cho K, Whitbourne S. Military and occupational exposures among Veterans in the Million Veteran Program by survey self-report: a descriptive study. Occup Environ Med. 2024 Oct 23; 81(10):522-528.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39327043
     
  2. Ni Z, Kundu P, McKean DF, Wheeler W, Albanes D, Andreotti G, Antwi SO, Arslan AA, Bamlet WR, Beane-Freeman LE, Berndt SI, Bracci PM, Brennan P, Buring JE, Chanock SJ, Gallinger S, Gaziano JM, Giles GG, Giovannucci EL, Goggins MG, Goodman PJ, Haiman CA, Hassan MM, Holly EA, Hung RJ, Katzke V, Kooperberg C, Kraft P, LeMarchand L, Li D, McCullough ML, Milne RL, Moore SC, Neale RE, Oberg AL, Patel AV, Peters U, Rabe KG, Risch HA, Shu XO, Smith-Byrne K, Visvanathan K, Wactawski-Wende J, White E, Wolpin BM, Yu H, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte A, Zheng W, Zhong J, Amundadottir LT, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ, Klein AP. Genome-Wide Analysis to Assess if Heavy Alcohol Consumption Modifies the Association between SNPs and Pancreatic Cancer Risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Sep 03; 33(9):1229-1239.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38869494
     
  3. Li C, Bishop TRP, Imamura F, Sharp SJ, Pearce M, Brage S, Ong KK, Ahsan H, Bes-Rastrollo M, Beulens JWJ, den Braver N, Byberg L, Canhada S, Chen Z, Chung HF, Cortés-Valencia A, Djousse L, Drouin-Chartier JP, Du H, Du S, Duncan BB, Gaziano JM, Gordon-Larsen P, Goto A, Haghighatdoost F, Härkänen T, Hashemian M, Hu FB, Ittermann T, Järvinen R, Kakkoura MG, Neelakantan N, Knekt P, Lajous M, Li Y, Magliano DJ, Malekzadeh R, Le Marchand L, Marques-Vidal P, Martinez-Gonzalez MA, Maskarinec G, Mishra GD, Mohammadifard N, O'Donoghue G, O'Gorman D, Popkin B, Poustchi H, Sarrafzadegan N, Sawada N, Schmidt MI, Shaw JE, Soedamah-Muthu S, Stern D, Tong L, van Dam RM, Völzke H, Willett WC, Wolk A, Yu C, Forouhi NG, Wareham NJ. Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100?000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2024 Sep; 12(9):619-630. PMID: 39174161
     
  4. Liu C, Hui Q, Wells QS, Farber-Eger E, Gaziano JM, Wilson PWF, Quyyumi AA, Vaccarino V, Hu YJ, Benkeser D, The Million Veteran Program, Phillips LS, Joseph J, Sun YV. A Multivariable Mendelian Randomization Study of Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure, Lipid Profile, and Heart Failure Subtypes. Genes (Basel). 2024 Aug 27; 15(9). PMID: 39336717; PMCID: PMC11431108; DOI: 10.3390/genes15091126;
     
  5. Qazi S, Seligman B, Preis SR, Rane M, Djousse L, Gagnon DR, Wilson PWF, Gaziano JM, Driver JA, Cho K, Orkaby AR. Measuring Frailty Using Self-Report or Automated Tools to Identify Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality: The Million Veteran Program. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Aug 20; 13(16):e033111.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39158558
     
  6. Clarke SL, Huang RDL, Hilliard AT, Levin MG, Sharma D, Thomson B, Lynch J, Tsao PS, Gaziano JM, Assimes TL. Genetically predicted lipoprotein(a) associates with coronary artery plaque severity independent of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Aug 19. PMID: 39158116
     
  7. Wang L, Cook NR, Manson JAE, Gaziano JM, Buring JE, Sesso HD. Associations Of Vitamin D-Related Biomarkers With Hypertension And The Renin-Angiotensin System In Men And Women. Am J Hypertens. 2024 Aug 09.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39120701
     
  8. Elmore AR, Adhikari N, Hartley AE, Aparicio HJ, Posner DC, Hemani G, Tilling K, Gaunt TR, Wilson PWF, Casas JP, Gaziano JM, Davey Smith G, Paternoster L, Cho K, Peloso GM. Protein Identification for Stroke Progression via Mendelian Randomization in Million Veteran Program and UK Biobank. Stroke. 2024 Aug; 55(8):2045-2054.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39038097; PMCID: PMC11259242; DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.047103;
     
  9. Verma A, Huffman JE, Rodriguez A, Conery M, Liu M, Ho YL, Kim Y, Heise DA, Guare L, Panickan VA, Garcon H, Linares F, Costa L, Goethert I, Tipton R, Honerlaw J, Davies L, Whitbourne S, Cohen J, Posner DC, Sangar R, Murray M, Wang X, Dochtermann DR, Devineni P, Shi Y, Nandi TN, Assimes TL, Brunette CA, Carroll RJ, Clifford R, Duvall S, Gelernter J, Hung A, Iyengar SK, Joseph J, Kember R, Kranzler H, Kripke CM, Levey D, Luoh SW, Merritt VC, Overstreet C, Deak JD, Grant SFA, Polimanti R, Roussos P, Shakt G, Sun YV, Tsao N, Venkatesh S, Voloudakis G, Justice A, Begoli E, Ramoni R, Tourassi G, Pyarajan S, Tsao P, O'Donnell CJ, Muralidhar S, Moser J, Casas JP, Bick AG, Zhou W, Cai T, Voight BF, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Madduri RK, Damrauer S, Liao KP. Diversity and scale: Genetic architecture of 2068 traits in the VA Million Veteran Program. Science. 2024 Jul 19; 385(6706):eadj1182.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39024449
     
  10. Madenci AL, Kurgansky KE, Dickerman BA, Gerlovin H, Wanis KN, Smith AD, Trinqart L, Gagnon DR, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Casas JP, Robins JM, Hernán MA. Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data? Epidemiology. 2024 Sep 01; 35(5):721-729.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39024034
     
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Bar chart showing 738 publications over 35 distinct years, with a maximum of 47 publications in 2022

YearPublications
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19958
199617
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199912
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200111
20028
200315
200417
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201329
201427
201528
201625
201714
201827
201937
202020
202138
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