October 14, 2005

Celebration of women's health research grows

What began as a poster session during last year's National Women's Health Week has expanded to include more participants and a keynote speaker. This year's "Improving the Health of Women through Research at the MGH" event will begin Oct. 21, with a talk by Elizabeth Ofili, MD, MPH, associate dean of Clinical Research and chief of Cardiology at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Ofili will discuss "Women's Health Research: New Discoveries and Translating the Science" from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Thier Conference Room. All members of the MGH community are welcome to attend.

" Since last year we have been continuously impressed by the work of our researchers whose interests involve women's health, and we're delighted to be sponsoring this weeklong recognition of their accomplishments," says Anne Klibanski, MD, director of the MGH Neuroendocrine Unit and chair of the MGH Women's Health Research Committee, part of the Women's Health Coordinating Council. Throughout the week, 34 posters outlining research into women's health — more than twice the number of last year's event — will be displayed in the White, Bigelow and Ellison corridors. Six of the posters are being honored with awards of merit.

" MGH researchers have constantly advanced women's health research in multiple disciplines, with discoveries in such diverse areas as osteoporosis, breast cancer, infertility and mental health," Klibanski adds.'The increasing multidisciplinary nature of research at the MGH will promote and facilitate these advances in women's health."

For more information about the program, contact Mary Ellen Heike, RN, at (617) 724-8044 or send e-mail to mheike@partners.org.