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.

July-August 2009

• Summer Recess

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Past Workshops:

June 2009

• Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
  Women and Opioid Dependence
  Speaker: Lynn E. Sullivan, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
  Click here for location & details.
  

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
  Click here for location & details.

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
  Click here for location & details.

February 2009

• Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
  Lung cancer in women and targeted therapy
  Speaker: Seema Agarwal, Ph.D., Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist in Pathology, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine
  Click here for location & details.
  Click here to listen to podcast.

January 2009

• Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
  Gender Specific Issues In HIV: How HIV is Gaining Ground Among Women and What Needs to be Done to Stop It
  Speaker: R. Douglas Bruce, M.D., M.A., M.Sc., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
  Click here for location & details.
  Click here to listen to podcast.

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
  Click here for location & details.

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
  Click here for location & details.

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
  Click here for location & details.