Lauren Wise

Lauren Anne Wise is a Canadian-American epidemiologist andprofessor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health.

Lauren Wise graduated from St. George’s High School in Montreal, Canada. She completed a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude at Bowdoin College with a double major in biochemistry and women's studies in 1996. She earned a Master of Science with a concentration in reproductive epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed a Doctor of Science in epidemiology with a minor in biostatistics from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her doctoral advisors were Donna L. Spiegelman, Bernard Harlow, and Julie R. Palmer.

Lauren Wise is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist by training. She has been on faculty at the Boston University School of Public Health since 2004. In 2015, she was promoted to Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH).Her research involves the study of environmental and genetic determinants of benign gynecologic disorders, subfertility, and adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes. She is currently Principal Investigator of Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO), a NICHD-funded North American preconception cohort study of more than 11,000 women and 2,500 of their male partners in which recruitment and follow-up occur via the internet (http://presto.bu.edu). She is also Principal Investigator of NIEHS-funded studies of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids) in the Study of Environment, Lifestyle and Fibroids (SELF), a prospective cohort study of 1,693 young African American women from Detroit, Michigan (http://www.detroitself.org/). She teaches two graduate-level courses (Design and Conduct of Cohort Studies; Reproductive Epidemiology), and she greatly enjoys mentoring doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty.She is a Statistical Editor for Human Reproduction and an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Her most cited papers are:

• Harlow BL, Wise LA, Stewart EG. Prevalence and predictors of chronic lower genital tract discomfort. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2001 Sep 1;185(3):545-50. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 374times
• Palmer JR, Wise LA, Hatch EE, Troisi R, Titus-Ernstoff L, Strohsnitter W, Kaufman R, Herbst AL, Noller KL, Hyer M, Hoover RN. Prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure and risk of breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers. 2006 Aug 1;15(8):1509-14. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 308times
• Harlow BL, Wise LA, Otto MW, Soares CN, Cohen LS. Depression and its influence on reproductive endocrine and menstrual cycle markers associated with perimenopause: the Harvard Study of Moods and Cycles. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2003 Jan 1;60(1):29-36. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 279times
• Wise LA, JR Palmer, BL Harlow, D Spiegelman, EA Stewart, ... Reproductive factors, hormonal contraception, and risk of uterine leiomyomata in African-American women: a prospective study. American journal of epidemiology 159 (2), 113-123, 2004 (cited 255 times).
• Wise LA, S Zierler, N Krieger, BL Harlow. Adult onset of major depressive disorder in relation to early life violent victimisation: a case-control study. The Lancet 358 (9285), 881-887, 2001 (cited 189 times).
• Wise LA, KJ Rothman, EM Mikkelsen, HT Sørensen, A Riis, EE Hatch. An internet-based prospective study of body size and time-to-pregnancy. Human reproduction 25 (1), 253-264, 2009 (cited 181 times).