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).