Joanne M. Murabito MD
Professor, General Internal Medicine
73 Mt Wayte Ave | (508) 935-3461joanne.murabito@bmc.org
murabito@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Centers
Framingham Heart Study
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Biography
Dr. Murabito is a Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Co-PI at the Framingham Heart Study. Dr Murabito’s area of expertise is in epidemiology and genetic epidemiology. Her current research focuses on identifying the determinants of healthy aging and longevity and reproductive aging in the community including the investigation of genetic and genomic factors. She leads highly productive multidisciplinary international consortia including the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomics Epidemiology (CHARGE) Aging and Longevity working group and the ReproGen Consortium. The Consortia bring together scientists interested in aging, longevity, and reproductive aging (menarche, menopause) and the relation of these traits to health outcomes and gene discovery.
Dr Murabito is also leading the introduction of mobile health into the Framingham Heart Study. She participated in an embedded physical activity trial using a smartphone app or activity tracker and would like to explore use of mHealth in older adults to improve health and function
Dr. Murabito continues to practice primary care at Boston Medical Center.
Education
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
ScM, Harvard University
BA, University of Rochester
Publications
Fricke DR, Cvejkus RK, Barinas-Mitchell E, Feitosa MF, Murabito JM, Acharya S, Brent MR, Daw EW, Minster RL, Zmuda JM, Kuipers AL. Epidemiology and genetic determination of measures of peripheral vascular health in the Long Life Family Study. Aging (Albany NY). 2025 Feb 25; 17(2):464-481. PMID: 40013929.
Published on 2/12/2025Spartano NL, Prescott B, Walker ME, Shi E, Venkatesan G, Fei D, Lin H, Murabito JM, Ahn D, Battelino T, Edelman SV, Fleming GA, Freckmann G, Galindo RJ, Joubert M, Lansang MC, Mader JK, Mankovsky B, Mathioudakis NN, Mohan V, Peters AL, Shah VN, Spanakis EK, Waki K, Wright EE, Zilbermint M, Wolpert HA, Steenkamp DW. Expert Clinical Interpretation of Continuous Glucose Monitor Reports From Individuals Without Diabetes. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2025 Feb 12; 19322968251315171. PMID: 39936548.
Published on 2/10/2025Oelsner EC, Krishnaswamy A, Rustamov R, Balte PP, Ali T, Allen NB, Andrews HF, Anugu P, Arynchyn A, Bateman LA, Cai J, Chang H, Chen L, Elkind MSV, Floyd JS, Gabriel KP, Gharib SA, Gutierrez JD, Stukovsky KH, Howard VJ, Isasi CR, Jager L, Jin L, Judd SE, Kanaya AM, Kandula NR, Kelly MR, Khan SS, Kucharska-Newton A, Lee JS, Levitan EB, Lewis CE, Make BJ, Malloy K, Manly JJ, Mauger D, Min YI, Murabito JM, Murphy CG, Norwood AF, O'Connor GT, Ortega VE, Patel AA, Pirzada A, Regan EA, Ring KB, Rosamond WD, Schwartz DA, Shikany JM, Sotres-Alvarez D, Tarlton C, Tse J, Meneses EMU, Vankineni M, Wenzel SE, Woodruff PG, Xanthakis V, Yang JH, Zakai NA, Zhang Y, Post WS. Classifying COVID-19 hospitalizations in epidemiology cohort studies: The C4R study. PLoS One. 2025; 20(2):e0316198. PMID: 39928595.
Published on 1/13/2025Jakubek YA, Ma X, Stilp AM, Yu F, Bacon J, Wong JW, Aguet F, Ardlie K, Arnett DK, Barnes K, Bis JC, Blackwell T, Becker LC, Boerwinkle E, Bowler RP, Budoff MJ, Carson AP, Chen J, Cho MH, Coresh J, Cox NJ, de Vries PS, DeMeo DL, Fardo DW, Fornage M, Guo X, Hall ME, Heard-Costa N, Hidalgo B, Irvin MR, Johnson AD, Jorgenson E, Kenny EE, Kessler MD, Levy D, Li Y, Lima JAC, Liu Y, Locke AE, Loos RJF, Machiela MJ, Mathias RA, Mitchell BD, Murabito JM, Mychaleckyj JC, North KE, Orchard P, Parker SCJ, Pershad Y, Peyser PA, Pratte KA, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Redline S, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Shah SJ, Smith JA, Smith AP, Smith A, Taub MA, Tiwari HK, Tracy R, Tuftin B, Bick AG, Sankaran VG, Reiner AP, Scheet P, Auer PL. Genomic and phenotypic correlates of mosaic loss of chromosome Y in blood. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 Feb 06; 112(2):276-290. PMID: 39809269.
Published on 12/31/2024Rong J, Pathiravasan CH, Zhang Y, Faro JM, Wang X, Schramm E, Borrelli B, Benjamin EJ, Liu C, Murabito JM. Baseline Smartphone App Survey Return in the Electronic Framingham Heart Study Offspring and Omni 1 Study: eCohort Study. JMIR Aging. 2024 Dec 31; 7:e64636. PMID: 39740111.
Published on 12/6/2024Liu C, Joehanes R, Ma J, Xie J, Yang J, Wang M, Huan T, Hwang SJ, Wen J, Sun Q, Cumhur DY, Heard-Costa NL, Orchard P, Carson AP, Raffield LM, Reiner A, Li Y, O'Connor G, Murabito JM, Munson P, Levy D. Integrating Whole Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing to Characterize the Genetic Architecture of Isoform Variation and its Implications for Health and Disease. medRxiv. 2024 Dec 06. PMID: 39677465.
Published on 11/22/2024Chen J, Murabito JM, Lunetta KL. ONDSA: a testing framework based on Gaussian graphical models for differential and similarity analysis of multiple omics networks. Brief Bioinform. 2024 Nov 22; 26(1). PMID: 39581869.
Published on 11/20/2024Carbonneau M, Li Y, Qu Y, Zheng Y, Wood AC, Wang M, Liu C, Huan T, Joehanes R, Guo X, Yao J, Taylor KD, Tracy RP, Peter D, Liu Y, Johnson WC, Post WS, Blackwell T, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Redline S, Fornage M, Wang J, Ning H, Hou L, Lloyd-Jones D, Ferrier K, Min YI, Carson AP, Raffield LM, Teumer A, Grabe HJ, Völzke H, Nauck M, Dörr M, Domingo-Relloso A, Fretts A, Tellez-Plaza M, Cole S, Navas-Acien A, Wang M, Murabito JM, Heard-Costa NL, Prescott B, Xanthakis V, Mozaffarian D, Levy D, Ma J. DNA Methylation Signatures of Cardiovascular Health Provide Insights into Diseases. medRxiv. 2024 Nov 20. PMID: 39606375.
Published on 11/11/2024Ramirez MF, Pan AS, Parekh JK, Owunna N, Courchesne P, Larson MG, Levy D, Murabito JM, Ho JE, Lau ES. Sex Differences in Protein Biomarkers and Measures of Fat Distribution. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Nov 19; 13(22):e000223. PMID: 39526334.
Published on 11/1/2024Yao S, Boudreau RM, Galvin A, Murabito JM, Honig LS, Perls TT, Christensen K, Newman AB. All-Cause Mortality and Cause-Specific Death in U.S. Long-Lived Siblings: Data From the Long Life Family Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Nov 01; 79(11). PMID: 39086360.
Media Mentions
Published on 9/27/2023
Framingham Heart Study celebrates 75th anniversary
Published on 2/11/2019
Charles River, Medical Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
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