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Program Details

First Annual UC San Diego Women's Health Symposium

Program Details
April 16, 2025 12:30-5pm
Sanford Consortium Roth Auditorium

12:30 Check-in and Refreshments

1:00 Opening Remarks

  • Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD/MS – Chair, OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences (OGRS)
  • Irene Su, MD/MSCE – Co-Director, Center for OB/GYN Research Innovation (CORI)
  • Brian Aguado, PhD – Co-Director, Women’s Health Innovations through Scientific Discoveries, Engineering and Medicine (WHISDEM)
  • Barbara Jung, MD – Dean, UCSD School of Medicine
  • John Carethers, MD/MACP/FAACR – Vice Chancellor, UCSD Health sciences

1:40 Session 1 – Maternal & Infant Health

  • Sandy Ramos, MD – Clinical Landscape and OGRS Opportunities
  • Louise Laurent, MD/PhD – Single-Cell and Spatial Multi-Omic Insights into the Human Placenta (HUBMAP)
  • Marni Jacobs, PhD – The MOM-Health Study and the MOHD Consortium
  • Jeremiah Momper, PharmD/PhD – International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT)

Flash Talks

  • Lars Bode, PhD – Human Milk Institute (HMI)
  • Gretchen Bandoli, PhD – MotherToBaby
  • Ina Stelzer, PhD – Reproductive Immunology

BREAK

2:45 Session 2 – Fertility & Infertility

  • Antoni Duleba, MD – Clinical Landscape and OGRS Opportunities
  • Heidi Cook-Andersen, MD/PhD – Blastocyst implantation and clinical ART collaboration
  • Sarah Averbach, MD/MAS – Family Planning and Global Health
  • Rebecca Rakow Penner, MD/PhD – Imaging in Gynecologic Disorders

Flash Talks

  • Alexander (Sasha) Kauffman, PhD – Neuroendocrine regulation of the female reproductive axis
  • Jennifer Anger, MD/MPH – Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome in Reproductive Age Women
  • Sheng Zhong, PhD – Silverseq and Liquid Biopsy

BREAK

3:50 Session 3 – Aging & Menopause

  • Linda Brubaker, MD/MS – Clinical Landscape and OGRS Opportunities
  • Amanda Lewis, PhD – Glycobiology (GLOW)
  • Marianna Alperin, MD/MS – Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM)
  • Andrea Lacroix, PhD – Healthy Aging After Menopause

Flash Talks

  • Ramez Eskander, MD – Gynecologic Oncology Research Opportunities
  • Anthony Molina, PhD – Stein Institute for Research on Aging
  • Sarah Banks, PhD – Alzheimer in Women
  • Emily Lukacz, MD/MAS – Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium and Pelvic Floor Disorders Network (PFDN)

5:00 Networking & Reception