awards portaldisp birth_date article_title name occupation
martha steele award -lrb- 1971 -rrb- american medical women 's association lyon -lrb- 2002 -rrb- research career development award , national institutes slater of health -lrb- 1972-1977 -rrb- fellowship -lrb- 1965-1968 -rrb- j. murray y 1935 marianne legato
 marianne j. legato , md , facp physician , author , lecturer ,
marianne legato

marianne j. legato , md , facp , is an internationally known academic physician , author , and lecturer and globally recognized expert in gender-specific medicine , the science of how normal human function and the experience of the same disease vary as a function of gender/biological sex .
legato is an expert on the sex-specific aspects of men 's and women 's health and is the founder and director of the partnership for gender-specific medicine at columbia university .
in 2008 , she established the non-profit foundation for gender-specific medicine .
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 writing the best book on cardiovascular disease written for the lay public .
legato is the founder and editor of `` the journal of gender-specific medicine '' and of `` gender-medicine '' and a leading advocate for the inclusion of women in clinical trials .
she is annually cited in new york magazine 's top doctors issues .
she is also the author of bestselling `` why men die first : how to lengthen your lifespan '' , `` eve 's rib : the new science of gender-specific medicine and how it can save your life '' , `` the female heart '' , and `` why men never remember and women never forget , '' which was translated into eleven languages .
she edited the medical textbook , `` principles of gender specific medicine '' , the first compilation for professional audiences of the sex-specific aspects of normal human function and disease .
legato has been an invited speaker at lectures and conferences throughout the united states and around the world .
she has been featured on the national abc program 20/20 in a segment dealing with gender prejudice in women 's health care and has made multiple appearances on local and national television and radio programs , including nbc 's `` good morning america '' , `` good day new york '' , the joan hamburg show , `` the today show '' , `` lifetime tv '' , `` iyanla show '' , `` the larry king show '' and the oprah winfrey show .
marianne legato has been an invited speaker at hundreds of lectures and conferences throughout the world for over a decade .
most recently , she was the president of the first international congress on gender-specific medicine in berlin , germany -lrb- february 2006 -rrb- and is the honorary president of the next two international congresses on gender-specific medicine in vienna -lrb- 2007 -rrb- and stockholm -lrb- 2008 -rrb- .
