Ellen Wells Seely BA, MD

Dr. Seely is a board certified Internal Medicine, 1984 and Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1987. Her Residency is at Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1981 - 1984 and her medical school was at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1981.

Dr. Seely’s research focuses on unique cardiovascular risk factors in women with a focus on pregnancy complications, preeclampsia, and gestational diabetes and menopause. She is studying the mechanisms by which gestational diabetes and preeclampsia lead to increased future cardiovascular risk and how to reduce that risk. In women with prior gestational diabetes, she is studying interventions to reduce the risk of future development of Type 2 diabetes, a cardiovascular risk factor equivalent.

In women with prior preeclampsia, she is studying the role of activation of the angiotensin 2 type-1 receptor in mediating the increased risk for cardiovascular disease. In postmenopausal women, she has demonstrated complex relationships between both estrogen and progesterone with the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, which she postulates may explain in part the increase in CVD associated with hormone treatment in this population.