I-Min Lee is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor ofEpidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as an Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Lee's main research interest is in the role of physical activity in promoting health and preventing chronic disease. This extends to characteristics associated with a physically active way of life, such as the maintenance of ideal body weight. She also is concerned with issues relating to women's health.

At present, she is a consultant for RRTC: LHIDs R2A at the University of Illinois.

Her research at Harvard University includes work on the following studies:

• the College Alumni Health Study, a prospective cohort study of the predictors of chronic diseases, with emphasis on physical activity, among 70,000 alumni from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and
• observational follow-up of participants in the Women's Health Study, a completed randomized trial testing the balance of benefits and risks of low-dose aspirin and vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer among 40,000 female health professionals, aged 45 years and older.

Biosketch

Selected publications:

Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Paffenbarger RS Jr. Physical activity and coronary heart disease risk in men: Does the duration of exercise episodes predict risk? Circulation 2000;102:981-986.

Lee I-M, Rexrode KM, Cook NR, Hennekens CH, Buring JE. Physical activity and breast cancer risk: The Women's Health Study (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2001;12:137-145.

Lee I-M, Rexrode KM, Cook NR, Manson JE, Buring JE. Physical activity and coronary heart disease in women: Is “No pain, no gain” passe? JAMA 2001;285:1447-1454.

Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Oguma Y, Paffenbarger RS Jr. Relative intensity of physical activity and risk of coronary heart disease. Circulation 2003;107:1110-1116.

Lee, I-M. Physical activity in women: how much is good enough? JAMA 2003;290:1377-1379.

Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Oguma Y, Paffenbarger RS Jr. The “weekend warrior” and risk of mortality. Am J Epidemiol 2004;160:636-641.

Lee I-M, Cook NR, Gaziano JM, Gordon D, Ridker PM, Manson JE, Hennekens CH, Buring JE. Vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer: The Women's Health Study: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2005;294:56-65.

Mora S, Lee I-M, Buring JE, Ridker PM.  Association of physical activity and body mass index with novel and traditional cardiovascular biomarkers in women.  JAMA 2006;295:1412-1419.

Mora S, Cook NR, Buring JE, Ridker PM, Lee I-M.  Physical activity and reduced risk of cardiovascular events: Potential mediating mechanisms.  Circulation 2007;116:2110-2118.

Sui X, Hooker SP, Lee I-M, Church TS, Colabianchi N, Lee CD,  Blair SN.  A prospective study of cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of type 2 diabetes in women.  Diabetes Care 2008;31:550-555.

Lee I-M (ed).  Epidemiologic methods in physical activity studies.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2009.