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Elizabeth Stier
Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Research Areas
Prevention of anogenital HPV associated cancers (i.e., cervical, vulvar and anal)
Why Women's Health?
HPV-associated cancers primarily affect women and are highly preventable. My research has primarily focussed on improving screening techniques for anal cancer and thereby detecting precancers that can be treated to prevent anal cancer in women living with HIV.
Kathleen Morgan
Professor Emerita, Department of Health Sciences
- Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences - Human Physiology
Research Areas
Vascular dementia
Why Women's Health?
Firstly, being a woman, I hoping for more research to be done on women and female animal models. The default is often to use males with the idea that the variable female hormones "complicate the science".
Katya Ravid
Barbara E. Corkey Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Areas
Blood Stem Cell Biology and Hemato-Vascular Biology
Why Women's Health?
It is important to uncover molecular mechanisms responsible for sex-dependent biological differences as lead to effective diagnosis, therapies and health outcomes for women.
Shi Yang
Clinical Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Anatomic Pathology
Research Areas
Oncology (Colon/Breast/Lung/Skin Cancers)/Molecular Diagnostic and Biomarkers
Why Women's Health?
I had involved in the breast cancer research during my earlier career. Ever since switched to clinical services, I had never give up on translational research in cancer research area,especially those in the biomarker discovery and clinical utilities for personalized medicine and target therapy. I would like to continue to contribute to the field of women's health study.
Vasiliki Maseli
Clinical Associate Professor
- Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine - General Dentistry
Research Areas
Why Women's Health?
Women's health and oral health research are vital for many reasons. Oral health research can help improve care by addressing the unique biological, hormonal (menstruation, pregnancy, menopause), and sociocultural factors that impact oral health in women. This can lead to the development of better public health guidelines and recommendations tailored to address the specific needs of women. Additionally, more research can help reduce oral health disparities and improve access to care for women worldwide.
Jesse Moreira-Bouchard
Clinical Assistant Professor
- Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences - Human Physiology
Research Areas
LGBTQ Cardiovascular Health
Why Women's Health?
Women and LGBTQIA+ people face a higher burden of cardiovascular disease, likely linked to psychosocial stress. In my lab, we aspire to uncover mechanisms of autonomic and endocrine disruption underlying the link between stress and CVD.
Michael Fischer
Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - General Internal Medicine
Research Areas
Health Services Research
Why Women's Health?
Rigorous and innovative research in women's health, especially in health services, can help us understand how to better serve our patients and community.
Abigail Batchelder
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Psychiatry
Research Areas
clinical psychology, behavioral health equity, HIV, substance use
Why Women's Health?
My work aims to increase access to community tailored evidence-informed psycho-behavioral interventions for individuals and systems who have been historically underserved by behavioral healthcare (e.g., people who use drugs, people with and vulnerable to HIV, and sexual and gender minority people). Women within these populations experience unique challenges and barriers to medical and mental healthcare, which can be mitigated by community tailored behavioral health interventions.
Maureen Dubreuil
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Rheumatology
Research Areas
Spondyloarthritis
Why Women's Health?
There are profound sex-related disparities in time to diagnosis of spondyloarthritis as well as disparities in response to therapies and outcomes.
Brian Smith
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Psychiatry
Research Areas
Trauma, mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, public health, women's health
Why Women's Health?
I'm the Deputy Director of the National Center for PTSD Women's Health Sciences Division, where I am also a Research Health Scientist. My program of research examines the effects of traumatic stress and mental health sequelae on health and psychosocial functioning across the life course. I examine these associations in populations at heightened risk for trauma, including especially military veterans, and frequently examine risk models in the context of gender. Much of my work is focused on women veterans specifically, and the implications of exposures to stress and trauma for long-term outcomes.