Women's Health Research Initiative Spring Forum

Sponsored by the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences and the Office of the Dean of Basic Research

The Women’s Health Research Initiative is a new interdisciplinary effort designed to connect basic, translational, and clinical researchers around common themes in women’s health across the lifespan. This inaugural forum is an opportunity to showcase the ongoing work in Women’s Health Research here at UTSW and provide a chance for members of the UTSW community to interact and get to know others working within this field through talks, lunch, and a poster session with a reception. 
 
If you are interested in attending the forum, please fill out the registration form. We cannot guarantee that a lunch will be available for late registrants, but there are still seats remaining in the lecture hall.

Agenda:

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Poster Set-Up, Registration Check-In

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Welcoming Remarks
 

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Session 1: Insights into Maternal-Fetal Health

Keynote Talk: Christina Herrera, M.D., Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Association of radiomic features of ADC and IVIM placental maps with clinical outcomes in chronic hypertensive pregnancies 

Pratibha Bhalla, Ph.D., Instructor, Immunology: Prenatal Intervention for Congenital Immune Deficiencies: A Therapeutic Approach for 22q11.2DS or DiGeorge Syndrome

Matthew Sieber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiology: Germline metabolic stress regulates progeny Intestinal stem cell niche signaling through heritable changes in redox metabolites

Maria Ossa Galvis, M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics: Expanding Perinatal Mental Health Screening to a Fetal Cardiology Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project

Nadine Piazza, Graduate Student, Psychiatry: Elucidating a Touch Circuit for Lactation

Elaine Duryea, M.D., Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Improving Maternal Postpartum Access to Care through Telemedicine (IMPACT) Study

Melissa Mauskar, M.D., Associate Professor, Dermatology: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Establishing the Vulvar Dermatoses Research Consortium

Ashley Solomonson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences: Biorepositories and Clinician-Scientist Partnerships
 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:50 PM: Session 2: Women's Health and Disease Across Organ Systems

Keynote Talk: Katherine Wert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology: The impact of sex in the progression of retinal degenerative disease

Carrie McAdams, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychiatry: Integrated Neuroimaging Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Gut-Brain Associative Patterns in Eating Disorders

Marwa Aljardali, M.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences: Mechanism of Action and Therapeutic Targeting of PARP7 in Endometrial Cancers

David Santiago Lopez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, O’Donnell School of Public Health: Anti-obesity medications in relation to incident cardiovascular disease among older female survivors of obesity-related cancers: 2007-2015 SEER-Medicare

Paula Hernandez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery: Sex differences in chondrocyte mechanics and mechanotransduction as potential risk factors for osteoarthritis

Hyung Bum Kim, Graduate Student, Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences: Dose-dependent Effects of Estrogen on Genomic Regulation in Breast Cancer Cells

Heather McArthur, M.D., Professor, Internal Medicine: Breast Cancer Program at Simmons Cancer Center
 

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM: Break

3:05 PM - 4:30 PM: Session 3: Innovations in Women's Health

Keynote Talk: Raksha Jain, M.D., Professor, Internal Medicine: Maternal and fetal outcomes in the era of CFTR modulators (MAYFLOWERS study) in people with cystic fibrosis

Sophia Ulman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Scottish Rite for Children: The influence of the menstrual cycle on kicking mechanics in adolescent females

Jimin Hwang, M.D., Resident, Internal Medicine: Utilization of Gender-Neutral Ferritin Reference Intervals in Identification of Iron Deficiency Anemia in a Safety-Net Health System

Triniti Vanoven, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering: Correlating optical imaging and biomechanical changes in the murine uterus with age

Philippe Zimmern, M.D., Professor, Urology: The John and Felecia Cain Center for Bladder Health

Qi Fu, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine: Women's Heart Health Laboratory
 

4:30 PM - 4:35 PM: Closing Remarks

4:35 PM - 6:00 PM: Poster Session and Networking Reception
 
If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Guhin.