Advancing Women’s Health: A 2024 Update
Friday, October 18th, 2024
Registration required
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The Division of Women’s Health hosts an annual Harvard Medical School CME symposium, entitled “Advancing Women’s Health: A Yearly Update”. This live virtual course educates clinicians caring for women on current, evidence-based management of medical conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect and/or present differently in women, and therefore require different prevention and treatment plans. Through didactic presentations and Q&A, faculty experts will provide a comprehensive review of treatment recommendations derived from their clinical expertise and peer-reviewed research on medical conditions affecting women from a broad range of specialties.
Participants report that this symposium has equipped them with knowledge that can be directly translated into patient care and clinic practice improvements:
Course Directors:
Annie Lewis-O’Connor, NP, PhD, MPH
The Division of Women’s Health has hosted several special Medical Grand Rounds in honor of the Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh Visiting Professorship in Women’s Health. This visiting professorship in women’s health, among the first in the nation, brings in renowned leaders in women’s health to present to, and discuss with, medical staff the most significant and recent advances in women’s health.
Upcoming events:
Friday, April 26, 2024 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
“Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Epidemiology, Awareness, Access and Delivery of Equitable Healthcare”
Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, MACP, FAHA
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Emeritus
Emory University School of Medicine
Consultant, Emory Heart and Vascular Center
Founding Consultant, Emory Women’s Heart Center
Hybrid:
Marshall A. Wolf Conference Center
60 Fenwood Road
Hale Building for Transformative Medicine
Boston, MA 02115
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Meeting ID: 619 813 8926
Passcode: 971407
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Past events:
2023
Shakira Suglia, ScD, MS, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Co-Director of Graduate Studies, PhD Epidemiology Program, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Childhood Adversity and Cardiometabolic Health: Examining sex differences
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2022
Tamarra James-Todd, PhD, MPH, Director, Organic Chemicals Research Core, Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health; Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology
Environmental Justice and Women’s Health: A Novel Lens for Understanding Reproductive Health Disparities across the Life Course
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2021
Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD, Director, Stanford Women’s Health and Sex Differences in Medicine (WHSMD) Center
Gender Matters: Why Sex as a Biological Variable is not Enough in Precision Health
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2019
Stephanie Faubion, MD, MBA, FACP, Penny and Bill George Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Women’s Health; Medical Director, The North American Menopause Society
Menopause Management in 2019
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2016
Doris A. Taylor, PhD, FAAC, FAHA, Director, Regenerative Medicine Research & Director, Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology, Texas Heart Institute
Considering Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular Repair
2013
Inaugural Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Visiting Professorship in Women’s Health Symposium: Women’s Health: The Future is Now
Sonia Anand, MD, PhD, McMaster University
Molly Carnes, MD, MS, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Rose Fife, MD, MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine
JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, BWH & Harvard Medical School
Noel Bairey Merz, MD, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center
Our Women’s Health Clinical Seminars, hosted by the Gretchen A. and Edward S. Fish Center for Women’s Health, offers the most up-to-date research on how primary care providers can coordinate and treat women’s specific health conditions across multiple disciplines. Begun in 2005, the monthly seminars are led by both HMS faculty and outside experts and address a wide variety of topics. In previous series, experts presented on cancer screenings, mental health, headaches and migraines, cardiovascular disease (risk assessment and prevention), contraception, polycystic ovarian syndrome, menopause management, implicit bias and somatization from the perspective of women’s health.
Course Director:
The seminar series’ learning objectives include:
Upcoming seminars: the seminars meet monthly at noon via Zoom, see contact details below for more information.
For more information, please contact Stacey Escalante at: snescalante@bwh.harvard.edu
Research Program of the Division of Women’s Health
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115