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Marianne J. Legato, MD — education (teaching), internal medicine (cardiology)

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Dr. Marianne J. Legato (b. 1935) is an internationally recognized specialist in women’s health and the founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. She has devoted much of her research to the subject of women and heart disease and in 1992, won the American Heart Association’s Blakeslee Award for a book she wrote for the public on women and heart disease. She is the founder and editor of The Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine and a leading advocate for the inclusion of women in clinical trials.

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