Teri Manolio, M.D., Ph.D.
Office of Population Genomics
Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI,
for Population Genomics
Office of the Director
M.D. University of Maryland, 1980
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2001
Room 3058, MSC 9307
Rockville, MD 20892-9307
Dr. Manolio is Director of the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI, for Population Genomics. She received her M.D. from the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. in human genetics and genetic epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University.
In 1987, Dr. Manolio joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute where she was heavily involved in large-scale cohort studies such as the Cardiovascular Health Study and the Framingham Heart Study. She joined NHGRI in 2005 to lead efforts in applying genomic technologies to population research, including the Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI), the Electronic Medical Records and Genetics (eMERGE) Network, and the NHGRI Genome-Wide Association Catalog.
Dr. Manolio also maintains an active appointment on the in-patient medical service of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. and is on the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as Professor of Medicine. She is the author of over 200 original research papers and has research interests in genome-wide association studies of complex diseases and ethnic differences in disease risk.
Last Updated: September 22, 2010