Sally Haskell

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of VA Connecticut Women’s Health Center
Primary Care Service Line Manager for Women’s Health, VA New England Region
Section of General Internal Medicine

Research Activities

Women’s health including women veteran’s health, chronic pain, menopause, hormone therapy, and women’s health education. Specific interests include gender specific outcomes after combat exposure in male and female veterans. A current project, the Women Veteran’s Cohort Study, is examining gender differences in outcomes of PTSD, depression, chronic pain, military sexual trauma, cost of care, and utilization after combat exposure in the national cohort of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A recent study has been completed that surveyed more than 1000 women veterans about their experiences with menopause and hormone therapy. Another recently completed study surveyed women veterans about their experiences with chronic pain and associations with sexual trauma history.

Clinical Activities

VA Primary Care Practice, VA Women’s Health Center, In–Patient Attending, VA General Medical Service

Selected Publications

• Haskell SG, Reisman AB, A novel program to increase the number of women patients seen by residents in a VA hospital. Academic Medicine 2004;79:9:851-54.
• Haskell SG, Heapy A, Reid MC, Papas R, Kerns R. The prevalence and age-related characteristics of pain in a sample of women veterans receiving primary care. J Women’s Health (Larchmt). 2006 Sept: 15(7): 862-9.
• Haskell SG, Bean-Mayberry BA, Goulet J, Skanderson M, Justice A. Determinants of hormone therapy discontinuation among female veterans nationally. Mil Med. 2008 Jan: 173(1) 91-6.
• Haskell SG, Papas R, Heapy A, Reid MC, Kerns R. The Association of Pain with Sexual Trauma in a sample of women veterans receiving primary care. Pain Medicine 2008
• Haskell SG, Bean-Mayberry BA, Gordon K. Discontinuing post-menopausal hormone therapy. An observational study of tapering versus quitting cold turkey: Is there a difference in recurrence of menopausal symptoms? In Press, Menopause 2008

Education:	M.D., Emory University School of Medicine, 1985
Training:	Internship & Residency: Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1988

Contact

Campus Address
WHVAMC
950 Campbell Avenue, 11 ACSL
West Haven, CT 06516

E-mail
sally.haskell@med.va.gov

Office Phone
203-932-5711, ext. 4767
Fax 203-937-4878