biology

Teri Manolio

Teri Manolio is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Teri Manolio rather than just read about it. In short: Teri Ann Manolio is an American physician, epidemiologist, and geneticist. She is director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), as well as Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Key takeaways

Teri Manolio belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Teri Manolio to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Teri Manolio from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Teri Ann Manolio is an American physician, epidemiologist, and geneticist. She is director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), as well as Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Heart Association's Council on Epidemiology. She also has a clinical appointment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Before joining the NHGRI, she worked on large cohort studies, such as the Cardiovascular Health Study and the Framingham Heart Study, at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Education She attended the University of Maryland at College Park where she received a B.S. in Biochemistry. She went on to earn a M.D. from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1980. She went on her earned both a Master of Health Science in Epidemiology and Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Genetics Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Career Dr. Manolio spent several years as a medical resident before becoming a medical officer in the Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology Branch at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 1987. In 1994, she became the director of the Epidemiology and Biometry Program at NHLBI. She held the position until 2005 when she became senior advisor and later Director of the Population Genomics Division at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 2007. She is also affiliated with the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine as a professor of medicine.

Research She has coauthored 423 journal articles. Her most viewed work, Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases, published in 2006, has over 87,000 accesses. Her work has been cited over 76,000 times. Her research ranges from ethnic disparities in disease risk to the translation of genome discoveries to clinical settings.

Honors and awards 2021 Presidential Rank Award: Highest award given to civilian employees at the National Institutes of Health

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Teri Manolio

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Teri Manolio claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Teri Manolio before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Teri Manolio ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Teri Manolio

In research: Teri Manolio appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Teri Manolio in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Teri Manolio is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century American women, American epidemiologists, American geneticists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Teri Manolio outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Teri Manolio in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Teri Manolio means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Teri Manolio out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Teri Manolio in simple terms?

Why does Teri Manolio matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Teri Manolio?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Teri Manolio.