program

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, FACS

Director of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Introduction of UPMC Hillman Women's Initiatives Taskforce (WIT)

Tullia C. Bruno, PhD (Chair) and Annie Im, MD (co-Chair)

Building and Sustaining Careers in Academic Medicine: A Gender Equity Lens

30-minute presentation followed by open mic discussion

Jennifer R. Grandis, MD — University of California, San Francisco

Sex differences in cancer immunoediting

Elise Alspach, PhD — St. Louis University School of Medicine

Sex differences in the glioblastoma immune response – opportunities for next-generation precision medicine therapies

Justin Lathia, PhD — Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Respiratory toxin exposure induces differential sex-based pathways of lung disease through epigenetic dysregulation

Amy Powers — University of Pittsburgh

Sex-specific impact of the tumor microenvironment in head and neck cancer pain

Lisa A. McIlvried, PhD — University of Pittsburgh

Ferroptosis: a metabolic vulnerability of cyclin E-high ovarian cancer

Naveen Kumar Tangudu, PhD — University of Pittsburgh

Investigation of the aged breast tumor microenvironment reveals changes to inflammatory and estrogen biology in older women (≥ 70yo) with ER+ breast cancer

Neil Carleton — University of Pittsburgh

From surviving to thriving in academic medicine

Monica L. Baskin, PhD — University of Pittsburgh

Male breast cancer and breast cancer in transgender patients

Rohit Bhargava, MD — University of Pittsburgh

Stromal mediators of ovarian cancer

Lan G. Coffman, MD, PhD — University of Pittsburgh

Book reading: Silence and Silences: Finding a Place to Stand

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Essayist and Poet, Author of "Mother Tongue, An American Life in Italy."