Description and quality assessment of MORGAM data

Annex: Sites and key personnel of contributing MORGAM Centres

© National Institute for Health and Welfare and the MORGAM Project investigators
Last updated: 1 July 2011
For more information, please contact Kari Kuulasmaa (firstname.lastname@thl.fi)

Australia
- Newcastle
  - Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
    - P. McElduff (principal investigator)
  - University of Queensland, Brisbane
    - A. Dobson (former principal investigator)
Denmark
- Glostrup
  - Københavns AMT, Centre of Preventive Medicine, Glostrup
    - T. Jørgensen (principal investigator), C. Agger
Finland
- FINRISK
  - National Public Health Institute, Helsinki
    - V. Salomaa (principal investigator), A. Juolevi, E. Vartiainen, P. Jousilahti
- ATBC
  - National Public Health Institute, Helsinki
    - J. Virtamo (principal investigator), H. Kilpeläinen
- MORGAM Data Centre
  - National Public Health Institute, Helsinki
    - K. Kuulasmaa (head), Z. Cepaitis, A. Haukijärvi, B. Joseph, J. Karvanen, S. Kulathinal, M. Niemelä, O. Saarela, H. Tolonen, T. Virman-Ojanen
- MORGAM Central Laboratory
  - National Public Health Institute, Helsinki
    - L. Peltonen (responsible person), M. Perola, K. Silander, M. Alanne, P. Laiho, K. Kristiansson, K. Ahonen
France
- National Coordinating Centre
  - National Institute of Health and Medical Research (U258), Paris
    - P. Ducimetière (national coordinator), A. Bingham
- PRIME/Strasbourg
  - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Louis Pasteur University, Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg
    - D. Arveiler (principal investigator), B. Haas, A. Wagner
- PRIME/Toulouse
  - Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse-Purpan, Toulouse
    - J. Ferrières (Principal Investigator), J-B. Ruidavets, V. Bongard, D. Deckers, C. Saulet, S. Barrere, M. Soubiraa
- PRIME/Lille
  - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Pasteur Institute of Lille
    - P. Amouyel (principal investigator), M. Montaye, B. Lemaire, S. Beauchant, D. Cottel, C. Graux, N. Marecaux, C. Steclebout, S. Szeremeta
- MORGAM Laboratory
  - INSERM U937, Paris
    - F. Cambien (responsible person), L. Tiret, V. Nicaud
Germany
- Augsburg
  - Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg
    - A. Döring (principal investigator), A. Hörmann, T. Illig, C. Meisinger, J. Baumert, N. Klopp, B. Thorand, A. Schneider, H.-E. Wichmann
Ireland
- MORGAM Laboratory
  - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin
    - D. Shields (responsible person), D. Gaughan
Italy
- National Coordinating Centre
  - Centro Ricerche EPIMED - Epidemiologia e Medicina Preventiva, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale. Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese
    - M. Ferrario (national coordinator), G. Veronesi
- Brianza
  - Centro Ricerche Patologia Cronico-degenerativa, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Monza
    - G-C. Cesana (principal investigator), R. Sega, C. Fornari, L Bolognesi
  - Dipartimento di Medicina, Prevenzione e Biotecnologie Sanitarie. Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Monza
    - R Sega, G Mancia, R Facchetti
- Friuli
  - Cardiovascular Prevention Centre, ASS4 Medio Friuli and Agenzia Regionale della Sanità , Udine
    - D. Vanuzzo (principal investigator), L. Pilotto, R. Mirolo, M. Martini, F., Mattiussi, G. Picco, S. Micossi, G. Dominici, C. Uliana, I. Russo
- Rome
  - National Institute of Health, Rome
    - S. Giampaoli (principal investigator), L Palmieri, F Dima, C Lo Noce
Lithuania
- Kaunas
  - Kaunas University of Medicine, Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas
    - A. Tamosiunas (principal investigator), S. Domarkiene (former principal investigator), D. Sidlauskiene
Poland
- Krakow
  - Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Population Studies, School of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
    - A. Pająk (principal investigator), E. Kawalec
- Warsaw
  - Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw
    - G. Broda (principal investigator), P. Kurjata, S.L. Rywik, M. Polakowska, A. Pytlak
Russian Federation
- Novosibirsk
  - Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Science, Novosibirsk
    - Yu. Nikitin (principal investigator), S. Malyutina, V. Gafarov, V. Feigin, G. Siminova, M. Voevoda, T. Vinogradova, N. Nasonova, E. Veriovkin
Sweden
- Northern Sweden
  - Umeå University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Umeå
    - B. Stegmayr (principal investigator), K. Asplund (former principal investigator), S. Nasic, G. Rönnberg, Å…. Johansson, V. Lundberg, E. Jägare-Westerberg, T. Messner
United Kingdom
- PRIME/Belfast
  - Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
    - F. Kee (principal investigator), A. Evans (former principal investigator), J. Yarnell, E. Gardner
- Scotland
  - University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
    - H. Tunstall-Pedoe (principal investigator), R. A'Brook, K. Harrison, J. Gibson
- Caerphilly
  - Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
    - J. Yarnell (principal investigator), Y. Ben Shlomo, E. Gardner
- MORGAM Coordinating Centre
  - Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
    - A. Evans (MORGAM coordinator), S. Cashman
MORGAM Management Group
- A. Evans (chair), S. Blankenberg (Mainz, Germany), F. Cambien, M. Ferrario, K. Kuulasmaa, L. Peltonen, M. Perola, V. Salomaa, D. Shields, B. Stegmayr, H. Tunstall-Pedoe, K. Asplund (honorary consultant).