Director of Clinical Research

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Buring received her BA in mathematics from Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1971; a masters degree in biostatistics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1975; and a doctorate in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1983. She is Professor of Medicine, and Ambulatory Care and Prevention, at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, as well as Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Buring's research focuses on the epidemiology of chronic disease, primarily cardiovascular disease and cancer, and especially among women. She is involved in a number of large-scale clinical trials of the prevention of these diseases, especially using vitamin supplements. She is Principal Investigator of the Women's Health Study, a large-scale randomized clinical trial conducted among 40,000 female health professionals of the benefits and risks of low-dose aspirin and vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as the extended observational follow-up of the participants. Dr. Buring is actively involved in the teaching and training of students and fellows in epidemiology, both nationally and internationally, and is director of an NIH T32 training grant in the epidemiology of aging. Dr. Buring is co-author of a widely used introductory textbook, Epidemiology in Medicine.