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 | Kathleen Hayden | khayden@wakehealth.edu |
| Atrial Fibrillation | Marco Perez | mvperez@stanford.edu |
| Bone/Fracture & Body Composition | Carolyn Crandall | ccrandall@mednet.ucla.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@brownphysicians.org |
