About Marianne J. Legato MD Gender Specific Medicine

Dr. Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, is a specialist in Gender Specific Medicine, or Women's Medicine and Men's Medicine respectively. She is the founder of The Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University and a WHF Liaison to Gender Studies on Heart Disease.

Dr. Legato is part of the Women's Heart Foundation, an international gathering of nurse executives, civic leaders, community health directors, member hospitals, partners, providers and corporate sponsors who want something done to fight women's heart disease. Dr. Legato is a visiting fellow in cardiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and continues to work there as a professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Since the 1960s, she been an attending physician at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and has also been an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospital for the past ten years. Dr. Legato is a world-renowned specialist in women's health and founded and directed the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. She is a devout researcher on the relationship between women and heart disease, winning the American Heart Association's Blakeslee Award for best book on cardiovascular disease. She is also the founder and editor of the Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine. She is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades for her work, including the Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's association.