Morgana Mongraw‐Chaffin

Preventive Cardiology

Wake Forest University

About

Morgana Mongraw‐Chaffin works in Preventive Cardiology affiliated with Wake Forest University.

Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin is the Scientific Director of Population Health Research at MedStar Health Research Institute. She previously served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Her research investigates the etiology and prevention of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, including cardiovascular risk factors.

Research focus

Metabolically Healthy ObesityEctopic Fat Distribution and Cardiovascular RiskGlucose Dysregulation and DiabetesSex and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiometabolic DiseaseObesity and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Impact

97 pubs · 2,488 cites · h-index 22

Training

PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2013
MPH
University of California, Berkeley
2006
BS
University of California, Santa Barbara
2004

Affiliations

Work Experience

Scientific Director, Population Health Research

MedStar Health Research Institute · 2024 - Present

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Prevention

Wake Forest School of Medicine · 2016 - 2024

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California San Diego · 2013 - 2016