Stacey Missmer

Missmer was an undergraduate student in biology at Lehigh University.[1] She moved to Harvard University as a graduate student, where she worked toward a doctorate in epidemiology.[2] She joined the Nurses' Health Study at Harvard in 1998, and was the group's senior endometriosis researcher. In 2003, Missmer was appointed to the teaching faculty at Harvard.[1]

Missmer was promoted to assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School in 2006, and Associate Professor six years later.[1][3] She joined the International Endogene Consortium in 2007, working with Krina Zondervan on a genome-wide association study of endometriosis. She served as lead of Harvard's Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology group and Director of Epidemiologic Research. Missmer was the co-founder of the Boston Center for Endometriosis, where she oversees the Women's Health Study. She joined the Board of Directors of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation in 2014.[1][4]

Missmer's research makes use of precision medicine to identify the risk factors for endometriosis in women and girls.[1] She identified variations in the incidence of endometriosis associated with body size, exercise and dietary intake.[5] Her research has indicated that women and girls who suffer from endometriosis may be at risk of autoimmune disease. Alongside her work on endometriosis, Missmer investigates predictors of infertility. In a study involving almost 3000 couples undergoing IVF, Missmer explored predictors of IVF outcomes.[1]

Missmer moved to Michigan State University in 2016, where she became the first faculty member to be recruited to the Global Impact Initiative.[1][6][7]

• Walter F O Marasas; Ronald T Riley; Katherine A Hendricks; et al. (April 1, 2004). "Fumonisins disrupt sphingolipid metabolism, folate transport, and neural tube development in embryo culture and in vivo: a potential risk factor for human neural tube defects among populations consuming fumonisin-contaminated maize". Journal of Nutrition. 134 (4): 711–716. doi:10.1093/JN/134.4.711. ISSN 0022-3166. PMID 15051815. Wikidata Q35723008.
• Stacey A Missmer; Daniel W Cramer (March 1, 2003). "The epidemiology of endometriosis". Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America. 30 (1): 1–19, vii. doi:10.1016/S0889-8545(02)00050-5. ISSN 0889-8545. PMID 12699255. Wikidata Q35108912.
• Stacey A Missmer; A Heather Eliassen; Robert L Barbieri; Susan E Hankinson (December 1, 2004). "Endogenous estrogen, androgen, and progesterone concentrations and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women". Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 96 (24): 1856–1865. doi:10.1093/JNCI/DJH336. ISSN 0027-8874. PMID 15601642. Wikidata Q45188730.