Women in Medicine and Science Symposium
The 13th annual Women in Medicine & Science Symposium (WMSS) will be on Wednesday, September 25, 2024.
SERI Breakout Space, Simches Research Building, 2nd Floor,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Agenda:
The Women in Medicine and Science Symposium highlights the achievements of women faculty and trainees at Brigham and Women’s and Mass General Hospitals. The Symposium will celebrate the accomplishments of women faculty and trainees across different disciplines – including basic science, clinical and translational research, clinical innovation, and education – with the goal of strengthening the BWH, MGH and MGB community.
2024 Keynote Address
Marcela del Carmen, MD Keynote: “A Circuitous Route to Academic Survival and Satisfaction: One Woman’s Journey in Medicine & Science”
Speaker: Jill Goldstein, PhD, MPH
Jill M. Goldstein, Ph.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Founder and Executive Director, Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine (ICON-✘) (http://icon.mgh.harvard.edu) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Helen T. Moerschner Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair in Women’s Health. She is a clinical neuroscientist and expert in understanding sex differences in disorders of the brain and their co-occurrence with general medicine, such as cardiovascular disease. Her program of research (funded by NIH for >30 years) called Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory of Sex Differences in the Brain (http://cnl-sd.mgh.harvard.edu ), consists of an interdisciplinary team integrating brain imaging, physiology, neuroendocrinology, genetics/genomics/transcriptomics, immunology, and collaborations with basic scientists. The studies take a lifespan approach, beginning in prenatal development, to understanding the causes of sex differences in the comorbidity of depression, cardiometabolic diseases, and Alzheimer’s disease. She has published >200 original reports and chapters, received numerous awards to support the work, served on scientific advisory boards for women’s health, brain health, and Alzheimer’s disease, and participated in strategic planning for the NIH and National Academy of Medicine.
She spent her career at Harvard training the next generation in women’s health/sex differences in medicine, particularly women in STEM, including leading for >19 years an ORWH Harvard-wide K12 junior faculty training program on building interdisciplinary careers in women’s health. In 2018, she launched ICON-✘ at MGH whose mission is to enhance discoveries about sex differences in medicine and incorporate them into developing novel sex-selective diagnostic tools and therapies. In 2020, ICON-✘ was designated an NIH Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences in Medicine, one of only 11 in the U.S.
2024 Presentations:
BWH Oral Presentations
- Jing Cui, PhD, “External Validation and Extension of Population-Based Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Risk Prediction Models using Genetics, and Lifestyle and Environmental Factors”
- Nurefsan Sariipek, MD, “Predicting relapse risk based on early post-transplant immune dynamics in patients with TP53-mutated acute myeloid leukemia”
MGH Oral Presentations
- Fleur Lobo, PhD, “A novel brain-permeable HDAC11-selective inhibitor significantly reduces AD neuropathology”
- Stephanie Tsai, PhD, “Elucidating injury-site specific regenerative programs to rebuild the tendon”
BWH Poster Presentations
- Cassandra Clift, PhD, “Sex Disparities in Human Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis Assessed by Disease Stage-Specific Histopathological and Proteomic Analyses”
- Constance Delwarde, PhD, “ADP-ribosylation in a mouse model of atherosclerosis: a potential novel link between dyslipidemia and inflammation in cardiovascular disease”
- Ariadne DeSimione, MD, MPH, “Comparison of Lung-RADS Version 1.1 and Lung-RADS Version 2022 in Classifying Airway Nodules Detected at Lung Cancer Screening CT”
- Delphine Franssen, PhD, “Identification of new molecular mechanisms of action of MKRN3 in the control of pubertal onset”
- Irene Gonsalvez, MD, “Impact of Sleep Interruption on Mood Disturbance and Oxytocin in Women Under High and Low Estradiol Conditions”
- Daniela Hincapie Tabares, MD, “Isoproterenol for Unmasking Dormant Conduction and Non-Pulmonary Vein Ectopy Triggering Atrial Fibrillation: Results from the Multicenter Prospective REAL-AF Registry”
- Dan Hu, PhD, “ApoE ε4-dependent alteration of CXCR3+CD127+ CD4+ T cells is associated with elevated plasma neurofilament light chain in Alzheimer’s disease”
- Grace Lee, MD, “Deep Learning Based Facial Age Phenotyping in a Large-Scale, Real-World Cancer Patient Population”
- Jillian Mazzocca, BS, “Impact of Depression on Patient Reported Outcome Measures after Arthroscopic Shoulder Stabilization Surgery”
- Emma McGee, PhD, MSc, “Adjuvant bone-modifying agents and mortality among older postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer”
- Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD, “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Pain and Opioid Consumption after Cesarean Delivery”
- Maria Vazquez Machado, BS, “Use of Virtual Reality for pain management on burn dressing changes”
- Amelie Vromman, PhD, “Sex Influences Effects on Atherosclerosis in TET2-related Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential and on Interleukin-1b Inhibition in Mice”
- Sufeng Zhang, PhD, “Functionalized Hydrogels for Material-tissue Interaction in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”
MGH Poster Presentations
- Shifu Aggarwal, PhD, “Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction mediated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing transcription factor MvfR: reversing effects with anti-MvfR and mitochondrial-targeted compounds”
- Ana Maira Baggio, DDS, MSc, “Alternative Therapies for Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw Treatment”
- Manisha Bahl, MD, MPH, “Performance Metrics of Screening Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Based on Age”
- Diane Chan, MD, PhD, “Leveraging Gamma Frequency Sensory Stimulation to Slow Neurodegeneration in Mild Alzheimer’s Disease Patients”
- Riddha Das, PhD, “Hybrid LNP prime dendritic cells for nucleotide delivery”
- Priya Sarin Gupta, MD, MPH, “Tackling Health Disparities: Evaluating Demographics + Hypertension Burden of Patients at a Community Mobile Clinic”
- Jiseung Kang, PhD, “Prenatal opioid exposure and subsequent risk of neuropsychiatric disorders in children: nationwide birth cohort study in South Korea”
- Marianthi Kavelidou, MD, “Trophectoderm (TE) Grade is Not Associated with Placental Pathology Among In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Conceived Singletons”
- Kyoko Konishi, PhD, “Sex Differences in the Impact of Midlife Mitochondria Metabolism on Memory Circuitry Function”
- Sujin Lee, MD, MS, “Transcriptomic Analysis of Calciphylaxis Tissue Reveals Novel Genes related to Vascular Calcification and Overlap with Coronary Artery Disease”
- Christiana K. Prucnal, MD, ScM, “Patterns in Duration of Emergency Department Boarding and Variation by Sociodemographic Factors”
- Angelica Torres-Berrio, PhD, “Epigenetic Programming of the Corticolimbic Pathway by Early Life Stress: Novel Role of H3K27 Monomethylation”
- Aatira Vijay, PhD, “Acetylsalicylic acid Accelerates Murine Stasis Venous Thrombus Resolution”
- Jessica Ye, MD, PhD, “Risk of PIRA and disability accumulation in a real-world cohort of MS patients initiated on high-efficacy vs low-efficacy disease modifying therapy”
Sponsors
- BWH Center for Diversity & Inclusion (CDI) and the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC)
- BWH Division of Women’s Health, Department of Medicine
- Brigham Research Institute (BRI) and Office for Research Careers (ORC)
- BWH Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology
- MGH Center for Faculty Development (CFD) and the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC)
- Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) Frigoletto Committee on Physician Well-Being
- Mass General Research Institute (MGRI) and Executive Committee on Research (ECOR)
2023 Keynote Address
Joanne Wolfe, MD MPH is the Chair of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief at MassGeneral for Children. She also serves as the Chair of Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Wolfe previously served as the Division Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital for nearly 30 years. She also served as the Vice President for Faculty Development at the Dana-Farber. Dr. Wolfe is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She holds an MD degree (1990) from Harvard Medical School and an MPH (1998) from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Wolfe specializes in pediatric supportive and palliative care, working together with an interprofessional team to provide an extra layer of support to seriously ill children and their families. She supports the primary team and families with delineating goals of care and complex decision-making. She also holds expertise in symptom management and quality of life interventions. Dr. Wolfe’s research focuses on easing suffering and promoting wellbeing in children with serious illness and their families. She also co-directs the multinational Pediatric Palliative Care Research Network.
2023 Oral Presentations
BWH Oral Presentations
- Mabel Seto, PhD, “Genes that escape X chromosome inactivation are associated with Alzheimer’s disease clinicopathology: findings from the Religious Order Study/Memory and Aging Project (ROSMAP)”
- Rajae Talbi, PhD, “Melanocortin 4 Receptors differentially regulate the tonic versus preovulatory release of GnRH in females”
MGH Oral Presentations
- Claire Castro, PhD, “Functional role of placental senescence in peripartum cardiomyopathy”
- Parisa Kaviani, MD, “AI-based urinary calculi detection, localization, and quantification on abdomen-pelvis CT: a multicenter, international internal testing and external validation study”
2023 Poster Presentations
BWH Poster Presentations
- Jingyi Cao, PhD, “Therapeutic remodeling of cell–cell interactions in pancreatic cancer revealed by single-cell spatial transcriptomics”
- Priyadarshini Kachroo, PhD, “Metabolomic signatures of the steroid biosynthesis driving sex differences in asthma”
- Katie Lee, MD, PhD, “Association Between Artificial Intelligence-Derived Tumor Volume and Oncologic Outcomes for Localized Prostate Cancer”
- Yan Ma, MD, MPH, “Heart rate variability during sleep onset in subjects with and without insomnia”
- Cassidy Mays, “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for a Neonatal Model of Sepsis”
- Bidisha Mitra, PhD, “Key Roles of Epstein-Barr Virus Oncogene Latent Membrane Protein 1 Transformation Essential Domains in B Cell Gene Regulation”
- Madeline Pesec, MD, ScM, “The Effect of Primary Health Care on Mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica”
- Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD, “Preoperative Temporal Summation of Pain Moderates the Efficacy of Ketamine in Inhibiting Postoperative Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial”
- Sasha Singh, MSc, PhD, “Mass spectrometry-enabled tracer kinetics in humans demonstrates HDL’s heterogeneous and complex metabolic structure”
- Kisha Sivanathan, PhD, “Charting the cellular biogeography in colitis reveals fibroblast trajectories and coordinated spatial remodeling”
- Alice Tang, MD, “Immunosuppression and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis (HSVE)”
- Shilpa Vijayakumar, MD, “Functional Status and Heart-Failure-Related Quality of Life Improve Following Therapy in Light Chain Amyloid Cardiomyopathy”
- Jeong Yee, PharmD, PHD, “Association of Anxiety, Depression, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with Cardiovascular Disease and All-cause Mortality Risk among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the All of Us Research Program”
MGH Poster Presentations
- Manisha Bahl, MD, MPH, “Prediction of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Upgrade Risk Using Machine Learning Models”
- Lauren Breithaupt, PhD, “Anti-inflammatory Activity of Estradiol as a Therapeutic Opportunity for Anorexia Nervosa: Evidence from Peripheral Blood-Based Biomarkers, In Vivo Imaging of the Brain Barrier, and Extracellular Free Water”
- So Mi Cho, PhD, “Genetic, sociodemographic, lifestyle, and clinical risk factors of recurrent coronary artery disease events: population-based cohort study”
- Roshan Fahimi, MD, “Multi-fracture AI algorithm for triage and detection of multi-body-part fractures in multicenter radiography”
- Nitya Jain, PhD, “RXRA regulates the development of resident tissue macrophages”
- Mikyung Kang, PhD, “Radiation-activated drug release for cancer therapy”
- Jisun Ki, PhD, “Development of a colorimetric-based portable sensor for on-site detection of airborne bacteria”
- Rachel Knipe, MD, “Endothelial Rho Kinase 2 (ROCK2) Upregulation in Expanded Ectopic COL15A1+ Systemic Venous Vessels in Pulmonary Fibrosis”
- Josephine Li, MD, “Supporting Our Physician Parents (SOPPort): A Pilot Program for Parental Wellness at the Massachusetts General Hospital”
- Lisa Lin, MD, MBBE, “A Deep Learning Model for Screening Computed Tomography Imaging for Thyroid Eye Disease and Compressive Optic Neuropathy”
- Anastasie Mate, PharmD, PhD, “Tau seeding and spreading in vivo is supported by both AD-derived fibrillar and oligomeric tau”
- Jacquelyn Nestor, MD, PhD, “Low Dose Hydroxychloroquine Use Associated with Increased Hospitalizations in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”
- Wen Shi, PhD, “Automated channel-wise prediction of epileptogenic cortex from intracranial interictal spike ripple rate”
- Jessica Shui, MD, “Identifying Optimal PEEP in Neonates with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia”
Sponsors
- BWH Center for Diversity & Inclusion (CDI) and the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC)
- BWH Division of Women’s Health, Department of Medicine
- Brigham Research Institute (BRI) and Office for Research Careers (ORC)
- BWH Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology
- MGH Center for Faculty Development (CFD) and the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC)
- Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) Frigoletto Committee on Physician Well-Being
- Mass General Research Institute (MGRI) and Executive Committee on Research (ECOR)
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us with any inquiries.
BWH Applicants:
Please contact: bwhwomenscareers@bwh.harvard.edu
MGH Applicants:
Please contact: womens.careers@partners.org
