Events

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026| 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Register Here Circadian Regulation of Sexual Behavior and Fertility Clifford Saper, MD, PhD James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Sydney Aten, PhD Postdoc Fellow in Neurology at BIDMC/HMS Teaching fellow at Harvard…

Monday, December 15th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Register Here Mapping Brain Networks Implicated in Eating Behavior and Metabolic Health Laura Holsen, PhD  Director of Research Training, Connors Center for Women’s Health Research, BWH Psychologist, Division of Women’s Health, Department of Medicine, and Department of Psychiatry, BWH Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HMS

On November 19th, the Sex-Informed Research Collaborative Think Tank hosted its first in-person mixer event where members of the MGB sex-informed and women’s health research community can attend panels and learn from others within the MGB system as well as coming together to network with their colleagues. At this event, we were thrilled to be…

Monday, November 17th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Register Here Advances in measurement of cognitive change using remote, digital assessments in aging and preclinical Alzheimer’s disease Kathryn Papp, PhD  Clinical Neuropsychologist, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

The 8th Annual Connors Center Research Symposium was held in the Marshall Wolf Conference Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Tuesday, October 28th at 3:00pm. It was held in conjunction with the Brigham/Harvard Reproductive Outcomes of Stress & Aging (ROSA) Center, an NIH Specialized Center of Research Excellence on Sex Differences. Over 150 registered…

Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Register Here Environmental Exposures and Reproductive Health: Examples from the Nurses’ Health Studies Francine Laden, ScD Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, HSPH Associate Chair of Department of Environmental Health, HSPH Associate Professor of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine,…

Monday, September 29th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Register Here Bringing Evidence-Based Sleep Treatments to the Bedside and Community Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH Clinical Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Monday, July 28th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Join Here Cracking the Code of Menopausal Hot Flashes: From Bench to Bedside Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Join Here Estrogen Signaling in the Hypothalamus Aligns Thermoregulation with Reproductive State Stephanie Correa, PhD Associate Professor & Allen Distinguished Investigator Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Join Here If Me, Then you: Attaining Leadership Through Growth Opportunities Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH MGB Chair, Department of Pediatrics Physician in Chief, MassGeneral for Children Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School

Over 120 attendees from 14 different academic institutions came out to the inaugural annual Connors-MGBRI Research Symposium on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The event started with introductory remarks by Connors-MGBRI Research Center for Women’s Health and Sex Differences co-chair, Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc. This was followed by the keynote address, “Artificial…

On Friday, April 18th from 12-1pm the Connors Center is hosting a virtual mixer event for the Sex-Informed Research Collaborative Think Tank (SIRCTT). This event will feature a brief overview of SIRCTT and how MGB investigators can get involved in the program followed by structured networking where attendees will be able to connect and identify potential…

Monday, April 7th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm |  Virtual  |  Registration Required Join Here Menopause and Cardiometabolic Health: What Hormones, Can, Cannot (and May) Do for You Nanette Santoro, MD Professor and E. Stewart Taylor Chair Divisions of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility & Reproductive Sciences Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 | 12:00-1:30pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required Join Here Cracking the Code of Menopausal Hot Flashes: From Bench to Bedside Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Monday, March 3rd, 2025   |   12:00-1:00pm   |   The Bornstein Amphitheater and via Zoom Sleep Health and Urban Stress in Young Adult African American Men and Women Thomas A. Mellman, MD Director, Stress/Sleep Studies Programs, and Codirector, Clinical Trials Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Howard University College of Medicine Register Here

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm   |   Virtual   |   Registration Required Register Here Women’s Cardiovascular and Brain Health During the Menopause Transition Rebecca C. Thurston, PhD, FABMR, FSBSM Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Women’s Health and Dementia Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Science Director, Center for Women’s Biobehavioral Health Research Assistant Dean…

The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health Research hosted the 8th Annual Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Stress Program of Research (WHISPR) Symposium and Awardee Presentation in the Marshall Wolf Conference Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. It was held in conjunction with the Brigham/Harvard Reproductive Outcomes of Stress & Aging…

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 Minguez-Alarcon, PhD (Note: Kendra Harris, MD, is missing from photo) The 7th Annual Connors Center…

The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health 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 23rd, 2024. It was held in conjunction with the Brigham/Harvard Reproductive Outcomes of Stress & Aging (ROSA) Center,…

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 questions. This session will be recorded and can be viewed afterwards. October 7th, 2022 at…

The Connors Center is a recipient of the Specialized Centers of Research Excellence (SCORE) grant, forming the ROSA Center. The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is is hosting the SCORE 2020 Annual Meeting Keynote Address, which will take place virtually, and is open to the public.   The keynote address, by Dr. Jocalyn…

On May 14, Dr. Hadine Joffe led the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Her talk, “mood disorders in women: what are the effects of female reproductive hormones on the brain?” explored topics on depression, sleep disturbance and hot flashes during peri and post-menopause.

Connors Center Executive Director Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc moderated a session for the virtual World Medical Innovation Forum, titled “Digital Therapeutics: Current and Future Opportunities” which focused on the use of digital therapeutics during COVID-19 and how it will impact the use of digital treatment in the future. A recording of the session is available…

On February 4, 2020, members of the first Summit Advisory Committee gathered to discuss the 2020 National Summit on the Health of Women. Invested members of academia, clinical practice, bio-pharma, venture capital, and policy gathered to to advise, guide and inform the direction and content of the 2020 National Summit on the Health of Women.…

The Connors Center is excited to co-host the next Women’s Brain Initiative Seminar on Wednesday, January 22, 4:00 – 5:00PM. This seminar will feature speaker Steven Kanes, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of Sage Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Kanes is responsible for Sage’s clinical-stage programs and is the company’s primary liaison with the investor community. A link…