Rate My Professor Meryl LeBoff

Meryl LeBoff is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and holds the Endowed Chair in Skeletal Health and Osteoporosis. She serves as Chief of the Calcium and Bone Section, Director of the Skeletal Health and Osteoporosis Center, and Director of the Bone Density Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a program she founded in 1987 that encompasses research, education, clinical care, and bone densitometry. Dr. LeBoff received her medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 1975, completed residencies in internal medicine at the University of Southern California Los Angeles County Medical Center from 1975 to 1979, and undertook a fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital from 1979 to 1982. She is board certified in internal medicine. Her clinical interests include osteoporosis, metabolic bone disease, secondary causes of osteoporosis, calcium metabolism, hyperparathyroidism, Paget’s disease, and skeletal health in women. Dr. LeBoff has advanced care for patients with hip fractures through interdisciplinary initiatives such as the Brigham Fracture Intervention Team. She has received awards including the Mary Horrigan Connors Award for Outstanding Leadership in Women’s Health, recognition on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of top physicians, and repeated selection as one of the Best Doctors in America from 1996 to 2014. Dr. LeBoff has authored numerous publications on osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease and served as lead author of updated clinician guidelines on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.