Margaret L. McNairy, MD, MSc

Margaret L. (Molly) McNairy, MD, MSc is the David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, and Chief of the Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics at WashU Medicine.

Dr. McNairy served as Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Center of Global Health at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. She also served as Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine at Weill Cornell and New York Presbyterian Hospital and led the Global Health Research Fellowship within the Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship program in the Division of General Internal Medicine.  Dr. McNairy is an outstanding general internist and internationally recognized global health scholar. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and as a Fulbright Scholar earned a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She completed her internship and internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, followed by a Global Health Equity Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She began her early faculty career at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital working as an academic hospitalist and as a global health physician with Partners in Health to implement HIV and primary health care programs in sub-Saharan Africa. She subsequently joined the International Center for AIDS Programs at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as a physician scientist. Her work there focused on HIV service scale-up in multiple low-income countries and implementation science studies designed to improve HIV primary health care delivery. In 2014, she was recruited to Weill Cornell’s Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) and the Center for Global Health. There, she continued to practice as an academic hospitalist and took on significant leadership roles in GIM, Hospital Medicine, Global Health, and Research Fellowship Programs, with a particular focus on expanding research and training for faculty, fellows, and students in global health. 

Education

• BS: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2000)
• Master of Science: London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (2004)
• MD: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (2006)
• Residency, Internal Medicine: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA (2009)

Board Certifications

• American Board of Internal Medicine
• American Heart Association

Selected Publications

Original Peer-Reviewed Articles

Roberts N, Sufra R, Yan L, St Sauveur R, Inddy J, Macius Y, Theard M, Lee MH, Mourra N, Rasul R, Nash D, Deschamps M, Safford M, Pape J, Rouzier V, McNairy M. Neighborhood Social Vulnerability and Premature Cardiovascular Disease in Haiti: a Cross-sectional Study. JAMA Cardiology. Accepted March 25, 2024.

Yan L, Sufra R, St Sauveur R, Jean-Peirre MC, Apollon A, Malebranche R, Theard M, Pierre G, Devieux J, Lau J, Mourra N, Roberts N, Rasul R, Nash D, Pirmohamed A, Devereux R, Lee MH, Kwan G, Safford M, Adrien L, Alfred J, Deschamps M, Severe P, Fitzgerald Dr, Pape J, Rouzier V, McNairy M.  Spectrum of prevalent cardiovascular diseases in urban Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a population-based cross-sectional study.  Lancet Americas.  Accepted March 13, 2024.

Dorvil N, Rivera VR, Riviere C, Berman R, Severe P, Bang H, Lavoile K, Devieux JG, Faustin M, Saintyl G, Mendicuti MD, Pierre S, Apollon A, Dumond E, Forestal GPL, Rouzier V, Marcelin A, McNairy M, Walsh K, Dupnik K, Reif L, Byrne A, Bousleiman S, Orvis E, Joseph P, Cremieux P, Pape JW, Koenig SP.  Same-day testing with initiation of antiretroviral therapy or tuberculosis treatment versus standard care for persons presenting with tuberculosis symptoms at HIV diagnosis: a randomized open-label trial from Haiti.  PLoS Medicine.  2023 June 9;20(6) epublication.

Roberts N, Pierre JL, Rouzier V, Sufra R, St-Preux S, Yan L, Metz M, Clermont A, Apollon A, Sabwa S, Deschamps M, Kingery J, Peck R, Fitzgerald D, Pape J, Tummalapalli S, McNairy M.  Prevalence and severity of chronic kidney disease in Haiti.  Clin J Am Soc Nephrol.  2023, April 18: online ahead of print.

Rene C, Faustin M, Bonhomme J, Deschamps M, Jean-Gilles M, Rosenberg R, Ibrahim M, McNairy M, Pape J, Devieux  J.  An adapted self-screening tool for peripartum cardiomyopathy in Haiti.  Crit Pathw Cardiology. 2023 Mar 1;22(1):19-24.

Riche C, Reif L, Nguyen N, Alakiu G, Seo G, Mathad J, McNairy M, Cordeiro A, Kinikar A, Walsh K, Deschamps M, Nerette S, Nimkar S, Kayange N, Jaka H, Mwaisung H, Morona D, Peter T, Suryanvanshi N, Fitzgerald D, Downs J, Hokororo A.  “Mobilizing our leaders”: a multi-country qualitative study to increase the representation of women in global health leadership.  PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023. Jan 30:3 (1) epub ahead of print.

Qasmieh S, Robertson M, Teasdale C, Kulkarni S, Jones H, McNairy M, Borrell L, Nash D. The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and long COVID in US adults during the BA.4/BA.5 surge, June-July 2022.  Prev Med 2023. April;169:epub ahead of print.

Book Chapters

Harripersaud, K., McNairy ML, S. Ahmed, E.J. Abrams, H. Thirumurthy, and W.M. El-Sadr. 2017. “HIV Care Continuum in Adults and Children: Cost-Effectiveness Considerations.” In Disease Control Priorities (third edition), Volume 6, Major Infectious Diseases. Edited by K.K. Holmes, S. Bertozzi, B.R. Bloom, and P. Jha. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Selected Presentations

McNairy M. Implications of population-based cardiovascular epidemiologic data in low-income countries to improve health outcomes. Invited Lecture.  NIH NHLBI Invited Scientist Series, Bethesda MD.  May 13, 2024.

McNairy M. Health Equity Research Outreach (HERO) Lecture Series. NIH. Cardiovascular Health Promotion in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Invited speaker and panelist. April 29, 2024.

McNairy M. Health Equity Research Outreach (HERO) Lecture Series. NIH. Cardiovascular Health Promotion in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Invited speaker and panelist. April 29, 2024.

McNairy M. Leveraging local CVD epidemiology data to inform implementation science in low-income settings.  Invited Department of Medicine Grand Rounds Speaker.  Washington University. St. Louis, October 26, 2023.

McNairy M. and Sufra R. Indoor Air Pollution and hypertension: cookstove use in low-income settings.  Invited lecture.  NIH Fogarty. Invited Lecture.  Global Non-communicable diseases and disorders research and research training program network virtual conference.   September 28, 2023.

McNairy M. Identifying poverty-related social and environmental determinants of the burgeoning CVD epidemic in low-income countries.  Invited lecture, Grand Rounds.  Mwanza International Trials Unit.  Mwanza, Tanzania.  February 8, 2023.