The Society for Women’s Health Research is the nation’s only non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of all women through research, education and advocacy. The Society encourages the study of sex differences between women and men that affect the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

OSSD Third Annual Meeting

The Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) held its Third Annual Meeting on June 4-6, 2009, at the Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel in Toronto, ON Canada. More than 140 participants from the US, Canada, and abroad enjoyed a welcome reception, keynote and capstone lectures, seven interdisciplinary panel presentations, two poster sessions, and an awards banquet. 

Drs. Jeannie T. Lee and Virginia M. Miller delivered the keynote and capstone lectures (respectively), and 26 scientists presented their research during the symposia. The panel topics included sex differences in pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics and drug development; childhood obesity: sex differences in manifestations and mechanisms; sex chromosomes and autoimmunity; sex and gender differences in progenitor and stem cells: implications for tissue injury, repair, and regeneration; sex-based cerebrovascular biology and stroke; sex and gender differences in knee osteoarthritis (OA); and sex differences in cognition.

Four new investigators received poster presentation awards, including the Florence P. Haseltine award for best new investigator presentation, won by Elizabeth Townsend from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

For more information on the 2009 program, and to receive information about OSSD’s upcoming Fourth Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI on June 3-5, 2010, please visit http://www.ossdweb.org/.

Society for Women’s Health Research Invited to Participate in White House Meeting on Women’s Health in Health Care Reform

Martha Nolan, Vice President for Public Policy at the Society for Women’s Health Research, spoke at a White House meeting called to address women’s health issues and concerns in the health care system and implications for health care reform. The meeting was moderated by Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform and attended by other White House and HHS officials and webcast live.

On May 20, 2009, Phyllis Greenberger, CEO and President of the Society for Women’s Health Research, advised the House Committee on Veterans Affairs that the Veterans Administration is uniquely situated to lead the nation in furthering essential sex differences research and in translating that research into clinical practice. 
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