Past ROSA Seminars and Symposia
Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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11/11/2024 | Shadab Rahman, PhD, MPH | Extensive and divergent effects of menopausal sleep fragmentation and estradiol withdrawal on cardiometabolic health | Watch Here |
10/30/2024 | Vivan Ota Wang, PhD, FACMG,CGC | 2024 Connors Center Annual Research Symposium: Redux, Remix, and Essential: Why Sex and Gender Matter in Women’s Health Research | Watch Here |
10/7/2024 | Kejal Kantarci, MD | Ovarian Hormones, Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Brain Health | Watch Here |
9/23/2024 | Julie Buring, PhD | Primary Prevention Trials in Women: Career Lessons I Have Learned | Watch Here |
7/17/2024 | Rachel Buckley, PhD | Sex Differences in Resilience and Vulnerability to Amyloid & Tau Pathology | Watch Here |
6/26/2024 | Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD | Women and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Begins in Midlife During the Menopausal Transition: Implications for Prevention and Treatment | Watch Here |
5/15/2024 | Sarah Richardson, PhD | Thinking Beyond ‘Sex as Biological Variable’: Contextualist Approaches to the Study of Sex-Related Variables in Biomedicine | Watch Here |
4/29/2024 | Tamarra James-Todd, PhD | Consumer product chemicals and cardiovascular disease risk across the reproductive life course | Watch Here |
4/23/2024 | Aimee McRae-Clark PharmD, BCPP | 7th Annual WHISPR Symposium: Sex, Stress, and Relapse | Watch Here |
3/4/2024 | Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD, FAHA, CCSH | Improving Cardiometabolic Health Through Sleep | N/A |
2/12/2024 | Jennifer Sullivan, PhD | Hypertension in Women: What Makes Them So Susceptible and How Do We Increase Awareness? | Watch Here |
1/17/2024 | Lin Chang, MD | Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Role of Stress, Sex Differences and the Microbiome | Watch Here |
12/6/2023 | Fran Grodstein, ScD | Psychosocial factors and cognitive health in aging | Watch Here |
10/30/2023 | Elizabeth Garner, MD, MPH | 2023 Connors Center Annual Research Symposium: Revolutionizing Women’s Health: Uniting Stakeholders to Bridge the Gaps in Therapeutic Investment and Innovation | Watch Here |
11/6/2023 | Victor Navarro, PhD | Neuroendocrine pathways controlling vasomotor symptoms | Watch Here |
10/11/2023 | Jorge Chavarro, ScD, MD | Reproductive traits and adverse pregnancy outcomes as windows to overall health. | Watch Here |
9/11/2023 | Kathryn Rexrode, MD, MPH | Strategies to Communicate Your Value | Watch Here |
7/17/2023 | Heather Bimonte-Nelson, PhD | Variations in Menopause Type and Hormone Exposures Throughout Life Impact Memory: Embracing Complexity, Overturning Dogma, and Diving Deep into Uncharted Waters | Watch Here |
6/26/2023 | Heather Brenhouse, PhD | The Forces That Shape Us: Interactions of Early Experience, Sex, and Puberty on the development of threat response circuits | Watch Here |
5/4/2023 | Cynthia Rogers, MD | 6th Annual WHISPR Symposium: Addressing Social Determinants to Optimize Perinatal and Neonatal Well-Being | Watch Here |
5/3/2023 | Jill Goldstein, PhD, MPH | Impact of SeXX and Immunity on Brain and Heart Disorders: Shared Etiology? | Watch Here |
4/24/2023 | Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD | The stress test of pregnancy: Can we predict and prevent cardiometabolic disease in women with a history of pregnancy complications? | Watch Here |
3/20/2023 | Chandra Jackson, PhD, MS | BWH Sleep Grand Rounds: Understanding and Addressing Structural and Health Inequities: The 'Sleep Exposome Across the Life Course' Example | Watch Here |
2/13/2023 | Pamela Mahon, PhD | Oxidative stress and emotion regulation mechanisms in bipolar disorder | Watch Here |
12/12/2022 | Susan Cheng, MD, MMSc, MPH and Emily Lau, MD, MPH | Eicosanoids As Immune - Inflammatory Mediators of Sex Differences in Health and in Disease | Watch Here |
11/29/2022 | Daniel Grossman, MD | 2022 Connors Center Annual Research Symposium: All hands on deck: strategies to maintain access to reproductive healthcare post-Roe | Watch Here |
11/9/2022 | Laramie Duncan, PhD | Genetic links between hot flashes and psychiatric disorders suggest new opportunities for treatment and shared mechanistic pathways | Watch Here |
10/24/2022 | Susan Redline, MD, MPH | Gender/Sex Differences in Sleep: Measurement, Epidemiology and Implications | Watch Here |
9/14/2022 | Emily Oken, PhD | Get out of your own way and get things done – strategies for success in academic medicine | Watch Here |
7/20/2022 | Wendy Khort, PhD | Bioenergetic Consequences of the Loss of Ovarian Function | Watch Here |
6/6/2022 | Sioban Harlow, PhD | Addressing the impact of Reproductive Aging in Aging Studies: Lessons from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) | Watch Here |
5/26/2022 | Karen Reue, PhD | Sex determinants of obesity and metabolic dysregulation | Watch Here |
5/25/2022 | Karen Kim, MD | 5th Annual WHISPR Symposium: Charting a path forward towards an inclusive research agenda: the Asian American research paradox | Watch Here |
4/25/2022 | Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc | Domino Hypothesis vs. Parallel Symptomatic Outcomes: Investigating Commonly Co-occurring Symptoms of Menopause-related Vasomotor, Sleep and Mood Disturbance | Watch Here |
3/28/2022 | Ursula Kaiser, MD | Neuroendocrine pathways mediating the effects of stress on reproductive function | Watch Here |
2/7/2022 | Jessica Mong, PhD | BWH Sleep Grand Rounds: Sex differences in sleep: impact of biological sex and sex steroids | Watch Here |
1/24/2022 | Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD | Sex Differences for Skeptics: How can we Increase our Chances of Identifying True Sex and Gender Differences in Health? | Watch Here |
12/6/2021 | Karen Costenbader, MD, MPH | 2021 Connors Center Annual Research Symposium: Sex, Gender, and Race: Intentional Inclusion of Representative Populations in Medical Research | N/A |
12/1/2021 | Andrea Hevener, PhD | Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman ‐ The impact of ERalpha on mitochondrial function and metabolic health | Watch Here |
11/15/2021 | Michelle Mielke, PhD | Effects of Premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy on cognitive and physical aging | Watch Here |
10/20/2021 | Aimee McRae-Clark, Pharm.D., BCPP | Women and Weed: Do Sex and Gender Matter? | Watch Here |
9/22/2021 | Elizabeth Klerman, MD, PhD | It’s about time: the importance of sleep and circadian rhythms in physiology and clinical care | Watch Here |
7/21/2021 | Olivia Okereke, MD, MS | Mapping the Path: Risk Factor and Prevention Strategies on the Road to Better Mood in Later Life | Watch Here |
6/3/2021 | Bizu Gelaye, PhD, MPH | Measuring Trauma, Stress and PTSD in Cross-cultural Settings | Watch Here |
5/24/2021 | Stephanie Padilla, PhD | BWH Sleep Grand Rounds: Integration of Metabolism and Reproduction: A Neural Circuit Perspective | Watch Here |
3/30/2021 | Elissa Epel, PhD | 4th Annual WHISPR Symposium: Investigating physiologic and psychologic stress in women’s health and disease | N/A |
3/24/2021 | Tracy Bale, PhD | Identifying novel systematic mechanisims of trauma programming: Extracellular vesicles as novel biomarkers and stress signals | Watch Here |