Events

12/9/24 ROSA Center Seminar: “Understanding chemical communications between cells: Perspectives from in vivo to ex vivo and back to in vivo”

Monday, December 9, 2024 | 12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Understanding chemical communications between cells: Perspectives from in vivo to ex vivo and back to in vivo

Stuart Tobet, PhD

Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences

Director, CSU School of Biomedical Engineering

Interim Head, Department Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences

Basic Science Director, ICON-X, MGH Psychiatry

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Laura Holsen, PhD, providing introductory remarks for Joji Suzuki, MD
Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc, Executive Director of the Connors Center, providing opening remarks for the Symposium
Aimee McRae-Clark, PharmD, BCPP, providing the keynote address.
Joji Suzuki, MD, providing remarks on trauma-informed addiction treatment and research
Sergey Karamnov, MD, 2024 WHISPR Awardee
Rose Olson, MD, 2024 WHISPR Awardee
Networking at the Post-Symposium Reception
Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc, Executive Director of the Connors Center, providing opening remarks for the Symposium
Joji Suzuki, MD, providing remarks on trauma-informed addiction treatment and research

4/23/24: The Connors Center 7th Annual WHISPR Symposium

The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology hosted the 7th annual Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Stress Program of Research (WHISPR) Symposium and Awardee Presentation in the Zinner Breakout Room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Tuesday, April…

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5/10/24: Women’s Health Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Chelsea Clinton, DPhil, MPH

Friday, May 10th 2024 | 11:00 am |  The Westin Boston Seaport District

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The 2024 Women’s Health Luncheon

Keynote Speaker: Chelsea Clinton, DPhil, MPH


As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea Clinton works alongside the foundation’s leadership and partners to improve lives and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. This includes the foundation’s early child initiative Too Small to Fail, which supports families with the resources they need to promote early brain and language development; and the Clinton Global Initiative University, a global program that empowers student leaders to turn their ideas into action. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity.

In addition to her foundation work, Chelsea teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers, including the No. 1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World as well as She Persisted Around the World; She Persisted in Sports; She Persisted in Science; Start Now! You Can Make a Difference; Don’t Let Them Disappear; It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going; and Welcome to the Big Kids Club. She is also the co-author of The Book of Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea’s podcast, “In Fact with Chelsea Clinton,” premiered in 2021, and she is also co-founder of HiddenLight Productions.

Chelsea holds a bachelor of arts from Stanford, a master of public health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a master of philosophy and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She lives with her husband Marc, and their children, Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper in New York City.

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Audience at the 2022 Connors Center Annual Research Symposium
Dr. Hadine Joffe delivering opening remarks
Dr. Daniel Grossman presenting the Keynote Address
Session 1 Speakers (from left to right) - Dr. Rajae Talbi, Dr. Wendy Wang, Dr. Emily Oken
Session 2 Speakers (from left to right) - Dr. Katherine Burdick, Dr. Vesela Kovacheva
Session 2 Speaker Dr. Steffanie Wright
Dr. Annie Lewis-O'Connor introducing the Lisa L. Leiden Fund for Research in Women's Health Excellence

11/29/22: The Connors Center Annual Research Symposium

The 2022 Connors Center Annual Research Symposium was held at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Tuesday, November 29th in conjunction with the Brigham/Harvard Reproductive Outcomes of Stress & Aging (ROSA) Center, an NIH Specialized Center of Research Excellence on Sex…

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12/12/22- ROSA Center Seminar: “Eicosanoids As Immune-Inflammatory Mediators of Sex Differences in Health and in Disease”

Monday, December 12, 2022   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Eicosanoids As Immune-Inflammatory Mediators of Sex Differences in Health and in Disease

Susan Cheng, MD, MMSc, MPH

Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health and Population Science

Director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging  Director of Public Health Research in the Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai

Emily Lau, MD, MPH

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Director of Research, MGH Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program

 
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11/9/22- ROSA Center Seminar: “Genetic links between hot flashes and psychiatric disorders suggest new opportunities for treatment and shared mechanistic pathways”

Wednesday, November 9, 2022   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Genetic links between hot flashes and psychiatric disorders suggest new opportunities for treatment and shared mechanistic pathways

Laramie Duncan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Director, Integrative Mental Health Lab

Dr. Duncan’s work is at the intersection of psychology, statistical genetics, and neuroscience.   Her group uses massive datasets and primarily computational approaches to identify mechanisms contributing to mental health problems like schizophrenia, depression, and PTSD.  Current projects include 1) translation of schizophrenia genetic risk variants into biological mechanisms; 2) the role of sex hormones in psychiatric disorders including novel discoveries about shared genetic influences on menopause symptoms and psychiatric disorders, and 3) human postmortem brain tissue studies of genetics-identified targets; 4) cross-disorder and trans-ancestry analyses of psychiatric disorders.

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