BWH Division of Women's Health
Department of Medicine

Division of Women's Health

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Continuing Medical Education

Advancing Women's Health: An Annual Update

Advancing Women’s Health: A 2024 Update
Friday, October 18th, 2024

 

Registration required
More details here

 

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:

 

  • “Speakers were very knowledgeable and provided practical strategies that I feel I can implement in practice immediately.”
  • “The new information I got here will help me provide additional help to the group of women I work with. I will apply them in my skills and watch how it will improve quality of care where I work.”
  • “Based on today’s educational session my practice will improve”
  • “The new information I got here will help me provide additional help to the group of women I work with.”
  • “Excellent speakers, solid data, a lot of great information – it was brilliant!”
  • “The topics were very diverse and touch aspects that I can apply in my practice.”

 

Course Directors:  

Kathryn Rexrode, MD, MPH

Eve Rittenberg, MD

Annie Lewis-O’Connor, NP, PhD, MPH

 

Karsh Visiting Professorship in Women's Health

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

 

OR

 

Zoom

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
Watch the video.

 

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
Watch the video.

 

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
Watch the video.

 

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
Watch the video.

 

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

Watch the video.


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

Women's Health Clinical Seminars

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:

Kari Braaten, MD, MPH

 

The seminar series’ learning objectives include:

  1. Integrate management of common issues in women’s health care delivery and knowledge.
  2. Evaluate patients’ overall health status from a multidisciplinary point of view and based on sex and gender differences.
  3. Review and translate shared patients’ co-morbidities effectively with other providers on the care team.
  4. Demonstrate the application of trauma-informed care through the nurturing of a Culture of Health and Safety by increasing competence and resilience among providers and patients.

 

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

Education & Training

Research Program of the Division of Women’s Health

Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115