FY2021 Seminars

Thursday, September 24th, 2020

4PM - 5PM EST

Director of Translational

Research & Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Mayo Clinic

"Sex differences in myocardial inflammation: update on COVID-19"

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

4PM - 5PM EST

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel

Professor, Departments of Physiology, Membrane Biology, and Pharmacology, UC Davis Health

“Sex, drugs and funky rhythms”

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

11AM - 12PM EST

Virtual Member Summit

Join us to engage with current and potential researchers throughout Michigan Medicine, from both basic and translational sciences to investigate topics related to sex differences in cardiovascular health. We’ve partnered with FCVC educational program, Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds, to host a series of rapid-fires talks from 11:00AM - 12PM. 

Thursday, December 17, 2020

12PM - 1PM EST

Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) in the Division of Cardiology,  Emory University School of Medicine 

“Transforming cardiovascular prevention for women: time for the Pygmalion construct to end.”

Thursday, 

January 28th, 2021

4PM - 5PM EST

Research Fellow

Cardiovascular Research, Department of Internal Medicine

University of Michigan


“Sex differences in endothelial dysfunction in COVID and mineralocorticoid antagonism as a therapeutic strategy”

Thursday, 

February 25th, 2021

4PM - 5PM EST

Valerie Castle Opipari M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Assistant Dean, Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School 


"Sex Differences in Obesity Induced Inflammation" 

Thursday, 

March 25th, 2021 

4PM - 5PM EST

Arthur C. Curtis Professor of Skin Molecular Immunology

Associate Professor, Dermatology

Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar

"Why are Autoimmune Diseases More Common in Women - Sexual Dimorphism in Autoimmunity"

Thursday, 

April 22nd, 2021

4PM - 5PM EST


Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, Heart Failure Disease Management, HF Bridge Clinic

Director, Cardiac Sarcoidosis Program

Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Associate Professor Department of

Pathology, Division Immunology

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Associate Director, Diagnostic Immunology Lab

John Hopkins University

"Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies: a look at sex differences from bedside to bench"