Women's Health Seminar Series 2024/2025

The Women’s Health Seminar Series will feature multidisciplinary research on women’s health. The goal of the series is to provide multidisciplinary training for attendees, including students across a broad range of women’s health research topics. Speakers will present their research regarding the biological, psychological, behavioural, economic and social factors in women’s health and their effects on women’s health outcomes. Each seminar will feature 45 minutes talks followed by an interactive question and answer period.

The series is open to everyone that is interested in learning more about women's health. We encourage all interested faculty, clinicians, community members and trainees to register for a talk or check out past seminars on our YouTube channel. All the seminars will be held virtually on Mondays from 12:00pm-1:00pm (EST) / 9:00 – 10:00 AM (PST) unless otherwise indicated.

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DATE/TIME

SEMINAR TOPICS & SPEAKERS

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Monday, September 23rd, 2024

9:00-10:00 am PDT/ 12:00-1:00 pm EDT 

Title: Modeling neurovascular-cognitive complications after preeclampsia-like conditions in rodents

Presenter: Dr. Paula Warrington, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson

 

Monday, October 21st, 2024

9:15-10:15 am PDT/ 12:15-1:15 pm EDT 

Title: Cognitive behaviour therapy for menopausal symptoms

Presenter: Dr. Sheryl Green, Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University

 

Monday, November 4th, 2024

9:00-10:00 am PST/ 12:00-1:00 pm EST 

Title: The influence of sex in genomics, epigenomics, and hormones of allostatic load

Presenter: Dr. Jordan Marrocco, Assistant Professor of Biology, Touro University New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Research in Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine

 

Wednesday, December 9th, 2024

9:00-10:00 am PST/ 12:00-1:00 pm EST 

Title: Molecular signatures of pregnancy health and child development: What can measures of biological age tell us?

Presenter: Dr. Kieran O’Donnell, Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study Center & Dept. Obs. Gyn. & Repro Sciences, Yale School of Medicine

 

Winter Break

Monday, January 20th, 2025

9:00-10:00 am PST/ 12:00-1:00 pm EST 

Title: Innovations in care for PTSD: Psychoeducation as a scalable, evidence-based intervention

Presenter: Dr. Dana Ross, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Psychiatrist, Trauma Therapy Program, Women's College Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychotherapy, Humanities, & Psychosocial Interventions

 

Monday, February 10th, 2025

9:00-10:00 am PST/ 12:00-1:00 pm EST 

Title: Neuroanatomical changes associated with human pregnancy

Presenter: Dr. Susana Carmona Cañabate, PhD, Neuroimaging Group, Hospital Gregorio Marañón  Madrid, Spain 

 

Monday, March 10th, 2025

9:00-10:00 am PDT/ 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

Title: Earlier menopause and brain health: What's the link?

Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Rabin, PhD, Sunnybrook Hospital

 

Monday, April 7th, 2025

9:00-10:00 am PDT/ 12:00-1:00 pm EDT 

Title: Sex differences in obesity, eating behaviors, and diet patterns: Insights from the brain-gut microbiome system

Presenter: Dr. Arpana Church, PhD, Associate Professor, Co-Director: Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center at UCLA, Director: Neuroimaging Core, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, Ingestive Behavior and Obesity Program, UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA 

 

 

 

 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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