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2nd Annual Lectureship in Women's Health Research

"From Estrogen Receptors to Management of Menopause"

Sponsored by the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health

Jack Masur Auditorium, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health
Friday, March 22, 2002
9 a.m. - noon

9:00 a.m.Opening Remarks
 
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.Estrogen Receptor — A Multifaceted Player
Jan-Ake Gustafsson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medical Nutrition
Chairman, Department of Biosciences
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
 
9:45 -10:15 a.m.Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy for Preventing Disease:
What Have We Learned in the Past Decade?

Deborah Grady, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology
Director of UCSF/Mt. Zion Women's Health Clinical Research Center
University of California — San Francisco
 
10:15 - 11:00 a.m.Panel Presentations and Responses:
Moderator: Anne L. Taylor, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Biology, Biostatistics, and Best Practices
Jacques E. Rossouw, M.D.
Acting Director, Women's Health Initiative
National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, NIH

The NIH — Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation Joint Effort for the
Preparation of the "International Position Paper on Women's Health and
Menopause

Professor Rodolfo Paoletti, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Science Foundation
Milan, Italy — Houston, Texas

From Clinical Trials to the Annual Exam: How Can Clinicians Keep
Science in the Conversation Without Creating Chaos for Their Patients?

Susan R. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Epidemiology
Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, University of Iowa

 
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.Discussion (Questions from Audience)
 
11:30 a.m.Closing Remarks: Women's Health and Menopause:
Future Needs — A Research Agenda for the New Millennium

Nanette Kass Wenger, M.D.
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine
Chief of Cardiology, Grady Memorial Hospital
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