Schedule of Panels and Panelists - Frontiers in Women’s Health: The Role of Hormones in Aging and Disease

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Thursday, February 24 - Pre-Symposium Reception

Registration, breakfast, and all panels on Friday, February 25 will be located in the Louis B. Mayor Lounge (LBM) at UC Hastings College of the Law, 198 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA.

Friday, February 25 - Morning Panels

Friday, February 25 - Lunch and Keynote Address

Friday, February 25 - Afternoon Panels

Friday, February 25 - Wine and Cheese Reception

Speakers and Panelists

Keynote Speaker - Marianne J. Legato, M.D.
We are thrilled to have as our lunchtime keynote speaker women’s health pioneer, Marianne J. Legato, M.D. Dr. Legato is an internationally recognized specialist in women's health and the founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. She is the founder and editor of The Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine and a leading advocate for the inclusion of women in clinical trials. Dr. Legato has devoted much of her research to the subject of women and heart disease. She is the author of several books, including Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine (for medical practitioners) and the general-trade books Eve's Rib: The New Science of Gender-Specific Medicine and How It Can Save Your Life, The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Heart Disease, and Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (with Laura Tucker). Her biography is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_197.html.

Panelists
Esteemed panelists confirmed to date, in alphabetical order, include:

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D., R. Pete Vanderveen Chair in Therapeutic Discovery and Development, Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, University of Southern California; Director, Los Angeles Basic Clinical Translational Science Institute.

Marcelle I. Cedars, M.D., Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of California, San Francisco; Principal Investigator, UCSF Women’s Health Clinical Research Center site of the KEEPS trial (see above).

Marsha Cohen, J.D., Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Past President, California State Board of Pharmacy; Served on four National Research Council and Institute of Medicine committees, including the recent “Committee on Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake”; Served on the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Review Panel on New Drug Regulation.

David Faigman, J.D., M.A., John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Clerked for the Honorable Thomas Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Lisa Faigman, J.D., Lecturer in Law, UC Hastings College of the Law; Completed extensive coursework and training in counseling and clinical psychology at John F. Kennedy University; Research interests include the use and misuse of forensic evidence in criminal proceedings, the courts' application of the rules of evidence regarding scientific evidence, and expert testimony in both the civil and criminal arenas, and individual and public health decision-making.

Baruch Fischhoff, Ph.D., Howard Heinz University Professor, Depts. of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; Chair of the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee.

Cynthia Gorney, M.D., J.D., Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism; Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic; Former national features writer, South American bureau chief and founding Style section writer for the Washington Post.

Florence Haseltine, Ph.D., M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health Center for Population Research; Founder, Society for Women’s Health Research; Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

S. Mitchell Harman, M.D., Ph.D., Director and President, Kronos Longevity Research Institute; Former Senior Research Fellow at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging at NIH, and founder of the NIA laboratory for the study of aging of the male and female reproductive hormone systems; Principal Investigator of KEEPS (Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study), a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded examination of healthy peri-menopausal women that is examining the effects of estrogen on the progression of atherosclerosis.

Victor Henderson, M.D., Chief, Division of Epidemiology, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University; Major research interests include risk factors for age-associated cognitive decline and dementia, therapeutic strategies to improve cognitive function in aging and dementia, and brain-behavior relations as they pertain to human cognition, with one major emphasis being the role of estrogens and other sex steroids in human cognition and dementia.

Karla Kerlikowske, M.D., Professor, Depts. Of Medicine and Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute-funded San Francisco Mammography Registry and co-Principal Investigator of the Program Project grant “Biological Basis of Breast Density and Breast Cancer Risk”; Internationally recognized expert on breast cancer screening, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and mammographic breast density.

Jamie King, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings, College of the Law; Associate Director for the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium in Law, Science and Health Policy; Teaches Torts, Health Law, and Genetics and the Law for the College; Research focuses on the ethical and policy implications of new medical technologies, health policy, and medical decision-making; Completed her Ph.D. in Health Policy at Harvard University, with a dissertation entitled, “The Regulation of Individual Medical Decision-Making.”

Robert Dale Langer, M.D., M.P.H., Principal Scientist and Medical Director, Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine; Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego (retired); former principal investigator for the WHI's clinical center at UCSD.

Bruce Patsner, M.D., J.D., Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine; Dr. Patsner has received multiple national and international awards for excellence in clinical research in gynecologic cancer and has served as a member of the Gynecologic Practice Committee of ACOG.

Benjamin Moulton, J.D., M.P.H., Chief Legal Advisor, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making; Adjunct Lecturer on Health Law, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health.

Osagie K. Obasogie, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Appointed at the UCSF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society; Scholarly interests include constitutional law, bioethics, sociology of law, and reproductive and genetic technologies.

Radhika Rao, J.D., Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Clerked for Judge Cudahy at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justices Harry Blackmun and Thurgood Marshall at the United States Supreme Court; Teaches and writes in the areas of biolaw, constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and property.

Julie Seaman, J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law; Evidence scholar and inaugural recipient of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law Junior Faculty Writing Prize for her article, “For and (Dys)Function in Sexual Harassment Law: Biology, Culture, and the Spandrels of Title VII.”

Cynthia Stuenkel, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Founding member and 2009-10 President, North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

Lois Weithorn, J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Expertise: Bioethics, Family, Juvenile, and Mental Health Law; Former fellow, Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Member, Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association.

Tracy Weitz, Ph.D., M.P.A., Director, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, both at the University of California, San Francisco; Currently collaborating with the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) on a project examining the effect of health care refusals on the standards of care for women's health; Special interest in aspects of women's health that are marginalized either for ideological reasons, or because the populations affected lack the means or mechanisms to have their concerns raised.

Joan C. Williams, J.D., Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Chair, UC Hastings 1066 Foundation; Prize-winning author, scholar and expert on work/family issues.

Joan Wolf, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Texas A & M University; Research and teaching interests include women’s and gender studies, public discourse and politics, health politics, and identity politics; Author of "Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood" (New York University Press, 2010), in which she confronts the stereotypes of ideal motherhood and explains how public health campaigns and advocacy groups have relied on flawed infant-feeding research to exaggerate health risks associated with using infant formula.

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