5^th Annual

Women’s Health Research Day

April 20, 2009, 8:30-4
Babcock Auditorium, Hanes Building
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

 “Cardiovascular Health and
Disease in Women”

Overview and Background

One of the missions of the WHCOE is to educate students, health care providers, and the public on issues in women’s health and to disseminate research findings on women’s health to health care professionals, research scientists, and the community at large.  Women’s Health Research Day is one of the ways we achieve this mission, by showcasing the achievements of investigators in this area.  This year, we seek to stimulate integrative discussion and cross-disciplinary collaboration to promote translational research in women’s health as it relates to cardiovascular health & disease.

Agenda

Keynote speaker: Lori Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Preventive Cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center (http://lorimosca.org/).

The full agenda will be posted once final. 

Audience

Women's Health Research Day is open to anyone interested in women’s health research: students, staff, nurses, post-docs, fellows, and faculty.  Nursing contact hours will be available.

Registration

This year, a $35 registration fee will be charged to attendees.  For students, post-docs and fellows, the fee will be waived.  This fee will cover the cost of food, beverage, and materials.  Please see the registration form for details.  Please register by April 5, 2010.  The fee can be paid by check (made out to WFUHS) or internal transfer.  To complete an internal transfer, please submit a Request for Payment to the Controller’s Office.   Where you would normally write the justification for the charge, please state that you are paying a conference fee to the Women’s Health Center of Excellence and request that the funds be deposited into account #331002-01-202000-10325-800-00000.  Because the Women’s Center does not have authority on your accounts, we cannot initiate this transfer - it must be submitted by a person in your department with the authority to spend your funds.

Call for Poster Proposals

·      Poster content must be any topic related to women's health.

·      Students, staff, nurses, fellows, post-docs and faculty are invited to present.

·      Presenters are required to be available from 11:00 – 1:00 to present their research.

·      Only 10 poster submissions will be accepted.