Women's Health
Research at Yale
PO Box
208091
New Haven, CT 06520-8091
Tel: 203.764.6600
Fax: 203.764.6609
whresearch@yale.edu
Upcoming Scientific Workshops
Women's Health Research at Yale and the Women's Behavioral Health Research Division in the Department of Psychiatry co-sponsor and co-host a continuing monthly workshop in which the latest research findings in many areas of investigation are presented and discussed.
The seminars are held from 12:00-1:00pm in conference room BCMM 206/208 in the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, unless otherwise noted.
Click here to listen to Workshop Seminar Podcasts.
December 2009
- Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Title: TBD
Speaker: Cary Gross, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine
January 2010
- Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Title: TBD
Speaker:
Harriet Kluger, M.D., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Oncology), Yale University School of Medicine
February 2010
- Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Title: TBD
Speaker: Oyebode Taiwo, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Occupational & Environmental Medicine Fellowship Training, Yale University School of Medicine
March 2010 
- Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Title: TBD
Speakers: Sanziana Alina Roman, M.D., F.A.C.S., Assistant Professor and Chief, Surgical Specialty,
Endocrine/General Surgery
and
Julie Ann Sosa, M.A., M.D., Associate Professor, Surgical Specialty,
Endocrine and Oncologic/General Surgery,
Yale University School of Medicine
April 2010
- Friday, April 30th, 2010, 10:15am-11:15am
Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Speaker: Sharon Allen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota
Please note different time (see above) and location:
Connecticut Mental Health Center Auditorium, CMHC 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT.
May 2010
- Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Title: TBD
Speaker: Barbara I. Gulanski, M.D., Assistant Professor,
Section of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Yale University School of Medicine
September 2010
- Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Title: TBD
Speaker: Francine Foss, M.D., Professor and Co-Director, LLM Program, Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine
Past Workshops:
November 2009
- Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Interactive effects of risk perceptions, gender, and nicotine dependence on smoking cessation
Speaker: Benjamin Toll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
Click here for location & details.
October 2009
- Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
The Impact of Sex on the Development of Novel Therapeutics
Speaker: Saralyn Mark, M.D., Senior Medical Advisor, NASA, President, SolaMed Solutions, LLC, Associate Professor Adjunct of Medicine and Ob/Gyn, Yale University School of Medicine
Please note NEW LOCATION: Hope Building, Room 110
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September 2009
- Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Environmental Estrogens and Reproductive Tract Developmental Disorders
Speaker: Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, and Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Yale School of Medicine
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June 2009
May 2009
- Friday, May 1st, 2009, 10:15am-11:15am

Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Interactive Effects of Age and Estrogen on
Cortical Neurons: Implications for Cognitive Aging
Speaker: John H. Morrison, Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience,
Dean Basic Sciences and the Graduate School of Biological Sciences,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Please note different time (see above) and location:
Connecticut Mental Health Center Auditorium, CMHC 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT.
Click here for location & details.
April 2009
- Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Stroke in Women: Disparities between clinical experience and research findings
Speaker: Louise McCullough, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Director of Stroke Research, University of Connecticut Health Center
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Click here to listen to podcast.
March 2009
- Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Stress, Depression, and Antidepressant Treatment: A Case of Neuronal Life and Death
Speaker: Ronald Duman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Director, Division of Molecular Psychiatry and Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities, Yale University School of Medicine
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Click here to listen to podcast.
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
- Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The Domestic Violence Home Visit Intervention Project: Impact on Recidivism and Engagement in Treatment
Speaker: Carla S. Stover, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
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November 2008
- Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Mechanism of Immune Protection Against Genital Herpes Infection
Speaker: Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
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October 2008
- Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Uncovering the role of reproductive hormones on fluid and sodium regulation in women
Speaker: Nina S. Stachenfeld, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine
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