Scientific Interest Groups

Scientific Interest Groups, or SIGs, represent the social networking within WHI designed to optimize the use of WHI resources by:

• Stimulating scientific exchange
• Encouraging productive collaboration within specific topic areas
• Advancing science by developing innovative scientific papers and ancillary studies
• Providing opportunities to engage current and new scientists to WHI
• Coordinating activities in an area of mutual scientific interest.
• SIGs meet regularly by conference call to accomplish these objectives. Any interested researchers can participate. To join a specific SIG, contact the corresponding SIG chair to be added to their mailing list and receive notifications about upcoming SIG calls.

SIG Chairs

Scientific Interest Group	Chair or Co-Chairs	Contact E-mail
Aging: Cognition & Functional Status	Lindsay Reynolds	lireynol@wakehealth.edu
Atrial Fibrillation	Marco Perez	mvperez@stanford.edu
Bone/Fracture & Body Composition	Nicole Wright	nwright6@tulane.edu
Cancer	Michael Simon	simonm@karmanos.org
Cardiovascular Disease	Marcia Stefanick	stefanick@stanford.edu
COVID-19	Aladdin Shadyab	ahshadya@health.ucsd.edu
	Zhao Chen	zchen@arizona.edu
Genetics, Proteomics & Biomarkers	Themistocles (Tim) Assimes	tassimes@stanford.edu
	Cara Carty	ccarty@whi.org
Hypertension	Bernhard Haring	bernhard.haring@uks.eu
	Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller	Sylvia.Smoller@einsteinmed.edu
Race, Ethnicity, and Health Equity	Lorena Garcia	lgarcia@ucdavis.edu
Nutrition/Energy Balance	Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani	yasmin.mossavar-rahmani@einsteinmed.edu
Obesity & Diabetes	Lesley Tinker	ltinker@whi.org
Physical & Built Environments	Eric Whitsel	eric_whitsel@unc.edu
Physical Activity/Body Composition	Michael LaMonte	mlamonte@buffalo.edu
Psychosocial & Behavioral Health	Michelle Naughton	michelle.naughton@osumc.edu
VTE & Stroke	Laura Harrington	laura.b.harrington@kp.org
	Tracy Madsen	Tracy.Madsen@uvm.edu