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Seven BWH researchers were named to a top 20 list of the most cited scientists in clinical medicine in the world during the last decade, with BWH Channing Laboratory physician and Harvard School of Public Health Epidemiology Chair Meir J. Stampfer, MD, DrPH, at the top of the list. A co-investigator in BWH's Nurses' Health Study, Stampfer and his 376 papers were cited 30,739 times by other researchers from 1995 to 2005, according to an analysis of ISI-indexed journals of clinical medicine by Thomson Scientific.
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, of the Department of Medicine and HSPH Nutrition, placed second on the prestigious list; Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, associate director of the Channing Laboratory, placed seventh; JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, chief of BWH's Division of Preventive Medicine, ranked 11th as the highest ranking woman on the list; Paul Ridker, MD, director of BWH's Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, ranked 12th; Eugene Braunwald, MD, chairman of the TIMI Study Group, ranked 13th; and Frank Speizer, MD, founding principal investigator of the Nurse's Health Study, placed 16th.