I am Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Leader of the Systems Genetics and Genomics Unit (SGGU) and Associate Director of the Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH I have authored or co-authored over 1000 papers and co-written and co-edited 4 books, including a comprehensive textbook on Respiratory Genetics. I have been continuously funded by the NIH/NHLBI for 48 years and was identified as part of the top 0.004% of biomedical researchers in terms of the scientific impact of their work (Eur J Clin Invest. 2013;43(12):1339-65. PMID: 24134636). My current H-index is 183. I have trained 51 investigators; 13 of whom have reached the rank of professor, and most of my trainees remain in academic medicine. Articles relevant to my presentation at the Vitamin D Society meeting are:
1. Kilic A, Halu A, De Marzio M, Maiorino E, Duvall MG, Bruggemann TR, Rojas Quintero JJ, Chase R, Mirzakhani H, Sungur AÖ, Koepke J, Nakano T, Peh HY, Krishnamoorthy N, Abdulnour RE, Georgopoulos K, Litonjua AA, Demay M, Renz H, Levy BD, Weiss ST. Vitamin D constrains inflammation by modulating the expression of key genes on Chr17q12-21.1. Elife. 2024 Apr 3;12:RP89270. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89270.PMID: 38567749

2. Weiss ST, Mirzakhani H, Carey VJ, O'Connor GT, Zeiger RS, Bacharier LB, Stokes J, Litonjua AA. Prenatal vitamin D supplementation to prevent childhood asthma: 15-year results from the Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial (VDAART). J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2024 Feb;153(2):378-388. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.10.003. Epub 2023 Oct 16.PMID: 37852328