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Wendy Kuohong
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology
Research Areas
Reproductive tract disorders, infertility, pregnancy, placental development
Why Women's Health?
As a reproductive endocrinologist and physician-scientist, Dr. Kuohung has dedicated her clinical and research career to helping people have children. Her research focuses on disorders of pregnancy and the reproductive tract, placental development, and disparities in reproductive healthcare.
Hugo Aparicio
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Neurology
Research Areas
Vascular Neurology, Stroke, Dementia, Brain Health, Neuroepidemiology
Why Women's Health?
Women common, especially at the intersection of other sociodemographics and social determinants of health, represent some of the highest risk groups for adverse brain health outcomes. For conditions, such as stroke and dementia, women are underrepresented in clinical trials and research shows that sex specific risk factors and treatment considerations are poorly understood.
Weining Lu
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Nephrology
Research Areas
Nephrology, Genetics, Fetal Origin of Adult Disease (FOAD), Developmental Origins of Health And Disease (DOHaD), kidney development, discovery of new biomarkers, artificial-intelligence-based digital pathology tools to improve diagnosis and clinical trials, and novel drug discovery and development for chronic diseases.
Why Women's Health?
We all have about one million nephrons in each kidney to maintain our cardiovascular and kidney function and health to prevent many chronic diseases such as hypertension and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome later in life. Women's health, especially maternal health, directly influences the birth weight and final nephron number in each kidney during kidney development in fetuses and newborns (i.e., nephron endowment), a key pathogenic factor for the Fetal Origins of Adults Disease (FOAD) and Developmental Origins of Health And Disease (DOHaD).
Carl Streed, Jr.
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - General Internal Medicine
Research Areas
LGBTQ+ health, Preventive Health
Why Women's Health?
Assessing and addressing key drivers of health (in)equities requires an expansive understanding of sex and gender. Naturally, exploring the unique experiences, needs, and outcomes of women's health are part of this.
Kimberly Bertrand
Associate Professor
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology
Research Areas
cancer epidemiology; racial disparities
Why Women's Health?
I am a cancer epidemiologist focusing primarily on cancer risk and outcomes in Black women, who suffer a disproportionate burden of cancer in the U.S. I am currently Multiple Principal Investigator of the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), a prospective cohort study of over 59,000 Black women begun in 1995. Within the BWHS and other large, well-established cohorts, I have led high-impact epidemiologic research projects to study risk factors for breast and other cancers.
Sheree Boulet
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research
- Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Areas
Structural drivers of maternal health disparities, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, postpartum care access
Why Women's Health?
Conditions that affect women have been chronically understudied, contributing to persistent gaps in physical and mental health status across the lifecourse. The factors that influence women's health are multidimensional and require a holistic and systems-focused approach.
Pinghua Liu
Professor
- Arts & Sciences - Chemistry
Research Areas
Natural product as probes for aging studies
Why Women's Health?
How gender affects aging related diseases.
Cara Lewis
Professor
- Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences - Physical Therapy
Research Areas
Musculoskeletal hip pain
Why Women's Health?
Females are vastly underrepresented in the research on the development hip structure in athlete, yet comprise nearly 2/3 of the clinical population with hip pain. We work to address the substantial research disparity between female and male athletes. The knowledge gained from our studies will lead to interventions to keep female hips healthy across the lifespan.
Cynthia Bradham
Associate Professor
- Arts & Sciences - Biology
Research Areas
Developmental Biology, Systems Biology
Why Women's Health?
Women and their health concerns are under-studied in general, yet female-specific body structures are responsible for every human life on earth. With women's rights increasingly imperiled both in the US and world-wide, it is enormously important that scientists insist on focusing on work aimed at understanding and fostering women’s health. Women’s health is fundamentally crucial to nothing less than the survival of the human species.
Michelle Sander
Professor
- College of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas
Why Women's Health?
It is such an important research field. Our technique of label-free photothermal imaging can provide new insights into the presence of nanobeads and any molecular changes that have occurred in any cells/tissues by analyzing the protein/lipid/nucleic acid structure. Very excited to start new collaborations!