2022 Scientific Symposium
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Agenda
Monday, February 7, 2022 | 12:00 - 3:30PM EST
Keynote Lecture
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC
Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center
Director, Preventive Cardiac Center
Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program
Director, Erika J. Glazer Women’s Heart Research Initiative
Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Smidt Heart Institute
“Sex Differences in the Cardiovascular System: An example of Biological Variable (SABV)”
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM Break
Member Lecture
1:15 PM - 1:40 PM
Audrey Cleuren, PhD
Assistant Member, Cardiovascular Biology Research, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
“It’s a TRAP: Identifying sex-specific differences in vascular gene expression”
Member Lecture
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
Laurie Svoboda, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences,
University of Michigan
"Sex-Specific Effects of Environmental Exposures on Cardiac DNA Methylation and Function"
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM Break
NIH Lecture
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM
Chyren Hunter, PhD
Associate Director, Basic and Translational Research Program,
NIH Office of Research on Women's Health
"Sex as a Biologic Variable"
Panel Discussion
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
"Approaches to Studying Sex Differences"
Panelists (top Left to right):
Dr. Rosanne Rouf, Dr. Santhi Ganesh, Dr. Durga Singer, Dr. David J. Pinsky, Dr. Audrey Cleuren, Dr. Lori Isom, Dr. Laurie Svoboda, Dr. Chyren Hunter, Dr. Johann Gudjonsson, Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz (not pictured).
Dr. Rosanne Rouf, Dr. Santhi Ganesh, Dr. Durga Singer, Dr. David J. Pinsky, Dr. Audrey Cleuren, Dr. Lori Isom, Dr. Laurie Svoboda, Dr. Chyren Hunter, Dr. Johann Gudjonsson, Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz (not pictured).