Marilyn G. Foreman,
MD

Doctor's Bio

Dr. Foreman is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, USA. She initiated the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine clinical services at Grady Memorial Hospital for the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 1992. She is a member of several professional societies including the American Thoracic Society, CHEST, and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Trained in Respiratory, Genetic, and Environmental Epidemiology at the Channing Institute (now the Channing Division for Network Medicine), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, her research focuses on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and tobacco-related health disparities. Her current interest is identifying predictors of smoking cessation in high risk groups. She is a site PI for the Genetic Epidemiology of COPD (COPDGene) Study where investigations have shown that early-onset COPD is associated with female sex, maternal factors, and African American race; higher-genetically-determined African ancestry is associated with lower lung function; and in comparison to individuals who do not possess Z alleles, heterozygosity for alpha-1 antitrypsin is associated with greater loss of lung function and increased radiographic emphysema in Non-Hispanic whites and Non-Hispanic African Americans with a history of tobacco smoking.