NW Women's Health & Sex/Gender Differences Research Conference
Friday, May 9, 2025, at 博彩网站 Auditorium (Old Library)
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The Oregon BIRCWH Program, 博彩网站 Center for Women's Health, and the 博彩网站 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology are proud to announce the 2025 Northwest Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research Conference at Oregon Health & Science University.
This full-day in-person conference is designed to ignite cross-institution, multidisciplinary research partnerships and collaborations within the Portland area and the greater state of Oregon. Previous conferences have been incredibly successful in developing new partnerships that have progressed to grant proposals, funding, and research. The conference highlights the BIRCWH and WRHR programs and their roles within the 博彩网站 community, but also to gives greater visibility to women’s health and sex and/or gender-based differences research on the 博彩网站 campus.
We are honored to have Judith Regensteiner, PhD, joining us as keynote speaker. Dr. Regensteiner is the Director of the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research and Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She holds the Judith and Joseph Wagner Chair in Women’s Health Research. Dr. Regensteiner is a Principal Investigator for the National Institutes of Health’s Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) grant and the Doris Duke Foundation’s Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists as well as being a Multiple Principal Investigator on a NIH RO1 for her research on the cardiovascular consequences of type 2 diabetes. She served two terms on the Advisory Committee for the NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health. As co-founder and director of the Ludeman Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Dr. Regensteiner leads an interdisciplinary team of researchers who focus on women's health and sex differences research.
2025 Agenda
7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Registration & light breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 8:35 a.m. | Welcome & opening remarks
8:35 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Keynote 1: Judith Regensteiner, PhD
“Integrating Sex and Gender into Research: Barriers and Solutions”
This talk focuses on how to include sex and gender as concepts in research. Dr. Regensteiner will use diabetes as a concrete example.
9:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. | Presentations from BIRCWH K12 Scholars
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Poster session
11:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. | Presentations from BIRCWH, RSDP, & WRHR K12 Scholars
12:10 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch, Poster Session, and Networking
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Early Phase Investigators, 博彩网站 Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, SOM
2:45 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. | Keynote 2: Maureen Baldwin, MD, MPH
“Defining successful menstrual treatment in adolescents and young adults with bleeding disorders”
Dr. Baldwin will provide background on expected bleeding outcomes with various hormonal therapies for those with normal to heavy menstrual bleeding, and those with bleeding disorders. We will discuss what is known about the pathophysiology of how bleeding disorders impact menstrual bleeding, and the relative impact of hormonal therapies compared to hemostatic therapies. We will evaluate the outcomes commonly used to measure successful treatment and review current clinical trials and research gaps.
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Q&A with 博彩网站 Researchers
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Closing remarks