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

November 15, 2024
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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

11/11/24 ROSA Center Seminar: “Extensive and divergent effects of menopausal sleep fragmentation and estradiol withdrawal on cardiometabolic health”

Monday, November 11, 2024 | 12:00-1:00pm | Virtual | Registration Required

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Extensive and divergent effects of menopausal sleep fragmentation and estradiol withdrawal on cardiometabolic health

Shadab A. Rahman, PhD

Lead Investigator, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2024 Annual Symposium Speakers, pictured from left to right: Kara McKinley, PhD; Florian Fintelmann, MD; Izzuddin Aris, PhD; Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc; Vivian Ota Wang, PhD, FACMG, CGC; Rohini Dutta, MBBS, MPH; Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD; Dr. Lidia Minguez-Alarcon, PhD (Note: Kendra Harris, MD, is missing from phot

The Connors Center 7th Annual Research Symposium

September 11, 2024
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Featured Image: 2024 Annual Symposium Speakers, pictured from left to right: Kara McKinley, PhD; Florian Fintelmann, MD; Izzuddin Aris, PhD; Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc; Vivian Ota Wang, PhD, FACMG, CGC; Rohini Dutta, MBBS, MPH; Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD; Dr. Lidia…

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

May 1, 2024
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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…

4/29/24 ROSA Center Seminar: “Consumer product chemicals and cardiovascular disease risk across the reproductive life course”

Monday, April 29, 2024 | 12:00-1:00pm | Virtual | Registration Required

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Consumer product chemicals and cardiovascular disease risk across the reproductive life course

Tamarra James-Todd, PhD

Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology,

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3/4/24- Connors-Division of Sleep Medicine Joint Sleep Grand Rounds

Monday, March 4th, 2024 | 12:00-1:00pm | The Bornstein Amphitheater and via Zoom

Improving Cardiometabolic Health Through Sleep

Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD, FAHA, CCSH

Associate Professor of Nutritional Medicine, Department of Medicine
Director, CUIMC Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

2/12/24 ROSA Center Seminar: “Hypertension in Women: What Makes Them So Susceptible and How Do We Increase Awareness?”

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

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Hypertension in Women: What Makes Them So Susceptible and How Do We Increase Awareness?

Jennifer C. Sullivan, PhD

Professor, Department of Physiology,

Medical College of Georgia

Dean, the Graduate School,

Augusta University

1/17/24 ROSA Center Seminar: “Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Role of Stress, Sex Differences and the Microbiome”

Wednesday January 17, 2024 | 12:00-1:00pm | Virtual | Registration Required

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Role of Stress, Sex Differences and the Microbiome

Lin Chang, MD

Vice-Chief, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases
Program Director, UCLA GI Fellowship Program

Co-Director, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience

Director, Clinical Studies and Database Core, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

The Connors Center 6th Annual Research Symposium

November 30, 2023
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The 6th Annual Connors Center Research Symposium was held in the Zinner Breakout Room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Thursday, November 30, 2023. It was held in conjunction with the Brigham/Harvard Reproductive Outcomes of Stress & Aging (ROSA) Center,…

The Connors Center 6th Annual WHISPR Symposium

May 4, 2023
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The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology hosted the 6th annual Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Stress Program of Research (WHISPR) Symposium and Awardee Presentation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Thursday, May 4th, 2023. Over 100 individuals…