Jean Marmoreo
"Middle age used to be a waiting room; now, it's a supermarket!"
Jean Marmoreo is a family physician and a partner in Wellpoint Family Practice, a Toronto clinic of 11 doctors serving 20,000 patients.
She is affiliated with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and is a Lecturer in the FamilyPractice Department of the University of Toronto School of Medicine. In addition, she provides expert opinion on cases that come before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Graduating from MacMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with a degree in nursing in 1964, Jean became Head Nurse at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto, the predecessor to CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She then decided to pursue a career in medicine and in 1974 graduated with the highest marks in her class in clinical practice from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, the largest medical school in North America.
A specialist in mid-life medicine, Jean Marmoreo has written a bi-weekly column on women for The Globe and Mail, which grew out of a similar column for The National Post. The popularity of her columns led to her writing a book, The New Middle Ages: Women in Midlife, which was published in 2002 by Prentice Hall. In addition, she is frequently called on to speak to women, either as a media commentator or directly to women’s audiences. In 2005, Jean was chosen one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.”
Jean Marmoreo is also an adventurer and world-calibre marathoner.
As a runner, she founded JeansMarines, the midlife women’s marathon group that between 2002 and 2009 took hundreds of mid-life women off the couch to train for the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington D.C. She has also placed first in her age group among women running the Chicago Marathon, the Ottawa Marathon and twice, the Marine Corps Marathon. But it has been in the storied Boston Marathon that Jean Marmoreo has broken records. In each of 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013, she placed first among women in her age group and is the first Canadian to ever do so. No woman has ever accomplished this at the Boston Marathon.
She had crossed the finish line just 10 minutes prior to the tragic bombings at the marathon in 2013 and wrote an inspiring article afterwards: "I'll run Boston again. We all should."
She has also hiked 1,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail, and has undertaken numerous treks in New Zealand, Australia, Spitsbergen, Patagonia, Bhutan, Tanzania, and to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest.
Jean is married to Toronto communications consultant Bob Ramsay (www.ramsayinc.com) and has three children: Lara, Jean Paul and Ryan.
Client Testimonials
"Jean Marmoreo has 'walked the walk' of a midlife woman, mother, daughter, partner and professional woman, and she has the gift of empathy and sensitivity."
Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital
"Middle age used to be a waiting room; now, it's a supermarket!"
Jean Marmoreo is a family physician and a partner in Wellpoint Family Practice, a Toronto clinic of 11 doctors serving 20,000 patients.
She is affiliated with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and is a Lecturer in the FamilyPractice Department of the University of Toronto School of Medicine. In addition, she provides expert opinion on cases that come before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Graduating from MacMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with a degree in nursing in 1964, Jean became Head Nurse at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto, the predecessor to CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She then decided to pursue a career in medicine and in 1974 graduated with the highest marks in her class in clinical practice from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, the largest medical school in North America.
A specialist in mid-life medicine, Jean Marmoreo has written a bi-weekly column on women for The Globe and Mail, which grew out of a similar column for The National Post. The popularity of her columns led to her writing a book, The New Middle Ages: Women in Midlife, which was published in 2002 by Prentice Hall. In addition, she is frequently called on to speak to women, either as a media commentator or directly to women’s audiences. In 2005, Jean was chosen one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.”
Jean Marmoreo is also an adventurer and world-calibre marathoner.
As a runner, she founded JeansMarines, the midlife women’s marathon group that between 2002 and 2009 took hundreds of mid-life women off the couch to train for the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington D.C. She has also placed first in her age group among women running the Chicago Marathon, the Ottawa Marathon and twice, the Marine Corps Marathon. But it has been in the storied Boston Marathon that Jean Marmoreo has broken records. In each of 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013, she placed first among women in her age group and is the first Canadian to ever do so. No woman has ever accomplished this at the Boston Marathon.
She had crossed the finish line just 10 minutes prior to the tragic bombings at the marathon in 2013 and wrote an inspiring article afterwards: "I'll run Boston again. We all should."
She has also hiked 1,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail, and has undertaken numerous treks in New Zealand, Australia, Spitsbergen, Patagonia, Bhutan, Tanzania, and to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest.
Jean is married to Toronto communications consultant Bob Ramsay (www.ramsayinc.com) and has three children: Lara, Jean Paul and Ryan.
Client Testimonials
"Jean Marmoreo has 'walked the walk' of a midlife woman, mother, daughter, partner and professional woman, and she has the gift of empathy and sensitivity."
Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital
