Marcia Stefanick

Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center; Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor (By courtesy), Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine

Research Description: Dr. Stefanick has conducted many randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) of physical activity, diet, and weight loss for cardiovascular (CV) disease risk, particularly fasting lipoproteins, glucose, and blood pressure, of menopausal hormones with CV (cancer, diabetes risk and fracture) outcomes, e.g. PEPI, HERS, Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials, and large diet trials with breast (and other) cancer outcomes, e.g. WHI and WHEL (NCI). She is an expert in women’s health, including cognitive function, and in aging, as PI of the WHI and Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study, which have continued follow-up with multiple, complex clinic visits, biomarkers, and outcomes. She has mentored several K-awardees and other junior faculty, many postdoctoral fellows in Stanford Prevention Research Center’s T32 Cardiovascular Disease Prevention training program, and fellows in T32 training programs in Nephrology, Endocrinology and the Cardiovascular Institute.

Selected relevant publications (Stanford DRC Members in BOLD):

  1. Banack HR, Bea JW, Stokes A, Kroenke CH, Stefanick ML, Beresford SA, Bird CE, Garcia L, Wallace R, Wild RA, Caan B, Wactawski-Wende J. It's Absolutely Relative: The Effect of Age on the BMI-Mortality Relationship in Postmenopausal Women. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Jan;28(1):171-177. doi: 10.1002/oby.22662. Epub 2019 Dec 4. PMID: 31799808; PMCID: PMC6989046.  

  2. Luo J, Hendryx M, Laddu D, Phillips LS, Chlebowski R, LeBlanc ES, Allison DB, Nelson DA, Li Y, Rosal MC, Stefanick ML, Manson JE. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Anthropometric Measures as Risk Factors for Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2019 Jan;42(1):126-133. doi: 10.2337/dc18-1413. PMID: 30352893; PMCID: PMC6463546 

  3. Jiang X, Nudy M, Aragaki AK, Robbins JA, Manson JE, Stefanick ML, OʼSullivan DM, Shikany JM, LeBlanc ES, Kelsey AM, Cauley J, Martin LW, Payne ME, Johnson KC, Howard B, Schnatz PF. Women's Health Initiative clinical trials: potential interactive effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation with hormonal therapy on cardiovascular disease. Menopause. 2019 Aug;26(8):841-849. PMID: 31145202.  

  4. Saquib N, Brunner R, Desai M, Allison M, Garcia L, Stefanick ML. Association between physical health and cardiovascular diseases: Effect modification by chronic conditions. SAGE Open Med. 2018 Jul 11;6:2050312118785335. doi: 10.1177/2050312118785335. PMID: 30013784; PMCID: PMC6041849.