About
Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD, MPH is Chief Academic Officer at Brigham and Women's Hospital (a role she assumed October 2024), Chief of the Division of Women's Health in BWH's Department of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She trained in medicine at Case Western Reserve, completed her primary-care residency and an epidemiology research fellowship at BWH, and earned her MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Thirty years into her BWH tenure, she still practices primary care at the Fish Center for Women's Health in Chestnut Hill. At Lifeforce, she advises the medical expert panel on women's cardiovascular and midlife health.
What to Know
Signature approach
Rexrode's lens is cardiovascular epidemiology applied to women's midlife health; reading risk across obesity, hormonal factors, metabolism, and the sex-and-gender axis rather than defaulting to male-normed cardiology. Her clinical practice at BWH's Fish Center for Women's Health runs primary care for women alongside the research program. As chief of the Division of Women's Health, she launched clinical programs in Menopause and Midlife Care and Obstetric Internal Medicine; the same questions that shape her Lifeforce advisory voice.
What sets them apart
- Major research footprint. 360+ peer-reviewed manuscripts; Google Scholar lists 62,700+ citations with an h-index of 126; a publication record most longevity advisors don't have.
- Continuous NIH funding since 2002. Leads multiple NHLBI and NCI grants on cardiovascular disease, metabolism, and stroke risk in women, plus breast-density reduction research.
- Writes the guidelines, not just cites them. Past chair of the AHA Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Women and Underrepresented Populations Committee; contributor to multiple AHA scientific statements. Recognized with the Harvard A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award (2016).
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Credentials
Education
MD
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
MPH
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Residency
Internal Medicine / Primary Care
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fellowship
Epidemiology Research
Brigham and Women's Hospital
NPI
1821054768
Affiliations
Scientific Advisor
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