Connors-BRI Symposium 2022 – Poster Session

2022 Connors-BRI Symposium Incorporating Sex as Biologic Variable to Advance Health

The symposium, sponsored by the Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women’s Health and Sex/Gender Medicine at the Brigham Research Institute, will host a variety of exciting talks by local researchers.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Donna L. Maney, Professor of Psychology, Emory University.

Watch The Event's Keynote Speech Below

Featured Presentations

Connors-BRI Short Talk

Alexandra Purdue-Smithe, PhD

Connors-BRI Short Talk

Gillian Coughlan, PhD

Connors-BRI Short Talk

Lydia Lynch, PhD

Lightning Talks

Gender Disparities in Rejection of Statin Therapy and Delays in Achievement of LDL Control among Patients at High Cardiovascular Risk

Alexander Turchin, MD, MS

The impact of a web-based behavioral intervention on early treatment adherence to anti-estrogen therapy in women with hormone-receptor positive early-stage breast cancer

Amanda Koire, MD, PhD

Sex-specific lesion pattern of long-term functional outcome after stroke

Anna Katharina Bonkhoff, MD

Utilization of Electronic Health Record Gender Demographic Fields A Metadata Analysis

Dinah Foer, MD

Exogenous Testosterone Inhibits Cutaneous Repair An A Murine Gender-Affirming Surgery Model

Erik Reiche, MD

Sex differences in the association between functional connectivity of reward neurocircuitry during food reward processing following acute psychosocial stress in MDD

Hyeonmin Ahn, PhD

Sex differences in T cell metabolism

Jaclyn Kline

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron has sex-specific effects on the intestinal mucosa and adiposity in Dietary Obese Mice

Jennifer Lee, PhD

Measuring gender bias in the workplace to improve gender equity in health and humanitarian programming

Jennifer Scott, MD, MPH

Sex Differences in the Association of Oxidative Stress with Leptin and Adiponectin

Jessica Busler, PhD

BDNF is Inversely Associated with Mood in Perimenopausal Depression

Jessica Harder, MD

Early Metabolic and Androgenic Features of Genetic Risk Factors for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Jia Zhu, MD

COVID-19 vaccine uptake, vaccine hesitancy and medical mistrust among reproductive-aged women in Jamaica

Jodian Pinkney, MD

Plasma glycated CD59 (pGCD59) as a novel biomarker for gestational diabetes (GDM)

Jose Halperin, MD

Sex Differences in Airway Mucus Plugs Among Patients with COPD

Jose Orejas, MD

Longitudinal Impact of Midlife Metabolic Health on Memory Function Role of Sex and Reproductive Aging

Kyoko Konishi, PhD

Impaired daytime sleepiness and neurobehavioral performance in premenopausal women following experimental sleep fragmentation and hypoestrogenism mimicking menopause

Leilah Grant, PhD

Protein Biomarkers of Early Menopause and Incident Cardiovascular Disease

Mariana Ramirez, MD

Differential alterations of amygdala nuclei volumes in acutely ill patients with anorexia nervosa and their clinical and neuroendocrine associations

Marie-Louis Wronski, PhD

An index measuring sociocultural gender-related exposures identifies non-biological effects on insomnia in the Hispanic Community Health StudyStudy of Latinos

Natali Sorajja

Sex-specific differential gene expression changes in human -iPS Cell-derived myoblasts

Nida Haider, PhD

Comorbidity of PTSD, Depression, and Immune System Dysfunction in a Large Cohort of Men and Women

Primavera A Spagnolo, MD, PhD

Connors GDM first slide

Rachel A. Blair, MD

Impact of sleep fragmentation on perceived sleep quality and daytime sleepiness in an experimental model of menopausal sleep fragmentation with normative sleep duration

Shadab Rahman, PhD, MPH

The Global Burden of Ischemic Heart Disease in Females Data from the 10 Most Populous Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Tracy Makuvire, MD, MPH

Recipient sex and estrogen levels affect alloimmune responses and transplant outcomes

Yao Xiao, MD