Arpita Vyas, MD, DCH

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology

"The Journey of the Heart from the Womb to the Tomb"

Nandor Gabor Than, MD, PhD

CEO and Founder - Genesis Theranostix Group; Director - Systems Biology of Reproduction Lendulet Group; Research Professor, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

"Novel insights into the distinct pathomechanisms of preeclampsia give the potential for early and effective screening and cardiovascular disease prevention."

Samantha Schon, MD

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Michigan Medicine

"The Relationship Between Obesity and Female (In)Fertility"

Vernon Dolinsky, BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor and Associate Head

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Co-lead of the Diabetes Research (DREAM) Theme for youth diabetes research at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, University of Manitoba

“The most important 9 months: Gestational diabetes and sex differences in the developmental origins of cardiovascular disease in the offspring.” 

Susan K. Fried, PhD

Professor and Director of Translational Adipose Biology and Obesity in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Mount Sinai

"Sex and Depot Differences in Human Adipose Tissues: adominal ≠ gluteal ≠ femoral"

Heddwen Brooks, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans

"The VCD Mouse Model of Menopause and Perimenopause for the Study of Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease and the Metabolic Syndrome"

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Susan E. Howlett, PhD

Distinguished Research Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine (Geriatric Medicine), Dalhousie University

"Male-Female Differences in Cardiac Function Across the Life Course"