Monday, February 13, 2023   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Oxidative Stress and Emotion Regulation Mechanisms in Bipolar Disorder

Pamela Mahon, PhD

Associate Vice Chair for Research, Psychiatry, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Co-Director of the Research Track, BWH/HMS Psychiatry Residency

Director, Mood Trajectories and Outcomes Laboratory

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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

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.

Monday, October 24, 2022   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Gender/Sex Differences in Sleep: A Model for Precision Medicine

Susan Redline, MD, MPH

Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine,

Harvard Medical School

Professor of Epidemiology,

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Director of the Programs in Sleep and Cardiovascular Medicine and Sleep Medicine Epidemiology,

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Redline has led epidemiological studies and clinical trials designed to 1) elucidate the etiologies of sleep disorders in both adults and children, including the role of genetic and early life developmental factors; and 2) understand the cardiovascular and other health outcomes of sleep disorders and the role of sleep interventions in improving health and well-being. She leads the Sleep Reading Center for a number of major multicenter studies and founded and co-directs the National Sleep Research Resource, an international sleep data sharing repository that has made research sleep data easily searchable and accessible, supporting community access to data and to a suite of open source tools. She also supports a sleep apnea patient-focused virtual community and works actively with patient advocates to improve patient education and support. She has co-authored over 650 manuscripts and has served the sleep medicine community in many ways, including as a past Board member of the Sleep Research Society and American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Learn more about the upcoming funding opportunities offered by the Connors Center through the end of 2022 and into 2023. Connors Center team members will provide an overview of the programs, requirements, and review followed by the opportunity to ask…

Wednesday, September 14, 2022   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Get out of your own way and get things done – strategies for success in academic medicine

Emily Oken, MD, MPH

Alice Hamilton Professor and Vice Chair

Director of Faculty Development

Director, Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse

Department of Population Medicine

Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Oken is a physician trained in internal medicine and pediatrics recognized for her leadership of a large NIH-funded portfolio of life course research; of educational programs in clinical epidemiology and population health; of an academic division focused on chronic disease prevention; and of national and international efforts to improve maternal and child health.  She is Principal Investigator of Project Viva, a groundbreaking US pre-birth cohort study that has followed pregnant women and their children since 1999.  She has served on national and international committees to develop nutrition guidelines.  She has been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Monday, June 06, 2022   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required

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Addressing the impact of Reproductive Aging in Aging Studies:

Lessons from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

Siobán D. Harlow, PhD

Professor Emerita of Epidemiology and Global Public Health

Professor Emerita of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Director, Center for Midlife Science

Editor-in-Chief Women’s Midlife Health 

Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Epidemiology and Global Public Health in the School of Public Health and of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan where she also serves as Director of the Center for Midlife Science. Her research focuses on understanding patterns of menstrual function and gynecological morbidity across the lifespan, including leadership in studies of the natural history of ovarian aging, development of a staging system for reproductive aging, and studies of the interface between ovarian aging and chronic disease. Internationally, she has worked extensively on the impact of global trade and export production on women’s and children’s health and on the health impacts of gender based violence, most recently focusing on conflict-related gender based violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she was a Fulbright Scholar in 2017-2018.