MaryFran Sowers Ph.D.

Expertise: Women's health

Academic Discipline: Medicine

Appointments: Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Research Scientist, Reproductive Sciences Program

Phone: (734) 936-3892

E-mail: mfsowers@umich.edu

· Directs the Michigan Center for the federally funded, seven-center SWAN (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) study, which focuses on women's health at midlife, collecting data on cholesterol, osteoporosis, bone density, arthritis, diabetes, heart d
· Studies the role of vitamin D, calcium metabolism in bone disease.

Additional interests: epidemiology of chronic disease, obesity, blood pressure