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Elizabeth V. Lawler, DSc, MPH

Adjunct Faculty
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health

Associate Epidemiologist
VA Medical Center

Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Biography

Since joining the Division of Aging at Boston's VA Medical Center in 2007, Dr. Lawler's research has focused on the epidemiology of aging, chronic disease epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety in the elderly. She works primarily with data from the Veterans Health Administration, in addition to longitudinal cohorts such as the Normative Aging Study and the Physicians' Health Study. Dr. Lawler's ongoing projects include investigations of drug safety in the elderly, genes and aging, and veterans' health.