Faculty Bio

Kathy McManus, MS, RD, LDN, is Director of the Department of Nutrition at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston. In addition she is the Director of Nutrition and Behavior Modification Programs for the Program for Weight Management at the Brigham and recently served as a Co-Investigator on an NIH funded obesity study, POUNDS (Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies) Lost. Ms McManus has been involved with a number of research trials during her years at the Brigham including Manager of the Nutrition component for the Harvard Atherosclerosis Reversibility Study and the Director of the Nutrition program for the Cholesterol and Recurrent Events (CARE) study, a cholesterol lowering trial involving 82 sites and more than 4000 patients in both Canada and the US along with the POUNDS Lost trial.  Ms. McManus has presented her research nationally and internationally including China, Japan, Crete, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Ms. McManus has numerous publications and book chapters including co-authoring a chapter in the 2007 addition of Cardiovascular Therapeutics. She has co-authored various lay publications including Healing Gourmet's Eat to Fight Cancer. Recently she was a co-author on an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine for her work on the Pounds Lost Study. This study was a multi-centered trial of two years duration examining four different diets differing in macronutrient, but controlled in energy. Ms. McManus serves on a number of leadership committees including the Brigham and Women's Hospital Women's Health Center's Medical Leadership Committee, the Diabetes Advisory Committee, and the Obesity Research Committee. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the American Heart Association. (Boston, MA)