Women in Medicine and Science Symposium

Marcela del Carmen, MD Keynote: “If me, then you: Attaining leadership through growth opportunities”
Speaker: Joanne Wolfe, MD MPH 

Joanne Wolfe, MD MPH is the Chair of Pediatrics at MassGeneral for Children and the Chair of Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She previously served as the Division 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 (BCH) for nearly 30 years. She also served as the Vice President for Faculty Development at the Dana-Farber. She 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’s research is focused 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 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 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”

2023 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"

2023 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”

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)

• Yumiko Ishizawa, MD, PhD, MPH, "Dynamics of the Brain Recovery following General Anesthesia in Nonhuman Primates"
• Jana Jarolimova, MD, MPH, "Sexually transmitted infection testing integrated with HIV prevention and contraceptive services in hair salons in urban South Africa"

• Jingjing Gao, PhD, “A rapidly recovering hydrogel-based delivery of disease modifying drug reduces osteoarthritis progression in active joints”
• Alexandra Purdue-Smithe, PhD, “A prospective study of migraine and aura phenotype and the risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy"

2022 Lightning Round Presentations

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