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Professor Robert D. Langer, MD, MPH, is the Principal Scientist and Medical Director of the Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine, and an Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine in the USA. He is a Member of the Board of the International Menopause Society and a Member of the Board of the Foundation for Healthy Aging.
He is an epidemiologist, family physician and preventive medicine specialist with more than 33 years of experience in studies of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colon cancer, osteoporosis, sleep, dementia and factors that influence longevity. An author of nearly 200 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, he has been a principal investigator for more than 30 national and international clinical trials and observational studies. He was the Principal Investigator of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Vanguard Clinical Center for the Women’s Health Initiative for the entire primary study period, Chairman of the WHI National Investigators Committee (1995-96) and Chairman of the WHI Observational Study Committee (1996-2005), as well as Study Director for the Postmenopausal Estrogen Progestins Intervention (PEPI) trial at UCSD (1987-95). He has published widely on the associations of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and chronic diseases, sometimes exposing fallacies in the interpretations of data published by the WHI investigator group. Read More Professor Langer lectures frequently internationally and was a member of the International Menopause Society Writing Groups for recommendations on women’s midlife health and menopausal hormone therapy in both 2013 and 2016. He was a member of the American Heart Association Writing Group for the AHA Scientific Statement on the Menopause Transition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Implications for Timing of Early Prevention published in 2020. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Heart Association Scientific Councils, as well as a member of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology.
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