BIRCWH 2002-2014

The Boston University (BU) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s (BIRCWH) Scholars Program recruited, selected and trained junior faculty in conducting clinical and health services research on women’s health issues. It provided mentored research training to promising faculty with proven commitment to addressing both health disparities in women and the needs of women across the lifespan. The long-term goals of the BU BIRCWH Program were to mentor an identified cadre of outstanding scholars and to provide them with the support and training needed for them to develop independent research careers in women’s health.

Boston University Medical Center received funding from the Office of Women’s Health Research, NIH through their Mentored Research Scientist Development Program Award (K12) for the BU BIRCWH Research Scholars Program from 2002-2014.

Scholar: Tracy Battaglia MD, MPH
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
1/1/2003-12/31/2005 Effect of risk perception on breast and colorectal screening in a multi-ethnic population Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Director of Women’s Health Unit, Boston Medical Center

Director of Community Engagement Core, Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Chief Medical Officer of the New England Division of the American Cancer Society

Women’s Health

(Internal Medicine)

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Scholar: Julie Keysor PhD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
1/1/2003-12/31/2005 Gender differences regarding relationships among environment, attitudes and disability Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College, Boston University; Director of Center for Enhancing Activity and Participation among Persons with Arthritis, Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University 95
Scholar: Michele David MD, MPH, MBA, FACP
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2003-6/31/2005 Social and cultural factors in managing chronic disease in Caribbean immigrants and other underserved populations Co-Director of Haitian Health Institute at Boston Medical Center;

Internist, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

Internal Medicine 40
Scholar: Irene Tien MD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2003-6/31/2005 Welfare issues for mothers of children referred to the Child protection team Pediatric Emergency Physician, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, MA.

Adjunct Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Oral examiner for American Board of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine 13
Scholar: Lynette Craft PhD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2004-6/31/2006 Implementing exercise as adjunct treatment for clinically depressed women Assistant Professor, Northwestern School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Psychiatry 25
Scholar: Eve Davison PhD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
1/1/2005-

12/31/2007

Late onset stress symptomatology in older female survivors of sexual trauma Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine;

Director of Women’s Stress Disorder Treatment Team, Coordinator of Clinical Training, Women’s Health Sciences Division; Internship site director, Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology; Co-director of Health, Stress, and Aging research program; Veteran’s Affairs Boston Healthcare System

 

Psychiatry, Women’s Health, Veteran Affairs 19
Scholar: Angela Jefferson PhD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2005-6/31/2007 Inflammatory markers as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease in women Associate Professor of Neurology,

Director of Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center, Director of Jefferson Laboratory of Cognitive Aging Vanderbilt University

Neurology, Psychology, & Psychiatry 76
Scholar: Rebecca Perkins MD, MSc
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2005-6/31/2008

 

Improving on the PAP smear in Honduras Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology 30
Scholar: Andrea Coviello MD, MSE
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
1/1/2006-12/31/2008

 

Androgen mediated metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease in women Assistant Professor of Medicine,

Boston University School of Medicine

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition (Internal Medicine) Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology 42
Scholar: Andrea Kronman MD, MSc
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2006-6/31/2008 Gender Disparities in Primary Care and the Use of Health Services by Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries at the End-Of-Life Clinician, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

 

 

Internal Medicine 19
Scholar: Erica Bernstein MD, PhD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
1/1/2008-6/31/2009 Adiposity Related Mediators of Aging-Associated Diastolic Dysfunction in Male and Female Centerarians Permanent Disability Geriatrics (Internal Medicine) 2
Scholar: Natalie Pierre Joseph MD, MPH
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
3/1/2008-6/31/2010 What parental factors influence the acceptance of the HPV vaccine Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 18
Scholar: Renee Boynton-Jarrett MD, ScD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
4/1/2008-6/1/2010 The Social Ecology of Obesity in Adolescent Girls Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

 

Pediatrics, Pediatric primary care 23
Scholar: Amy Baranoski MD
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2009-6/31/2011 Risk factors for non-adherence with cervical pap testing in HIV positive women Assistant Professor of Medicine & Assistant Course Director, Drexel University College of Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health; Infectious Disease and HIV Medicine 11
Scholar: Theresa Ellis PhD, PT, NCS
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2009-6/31/2011 Unveiling the Natural History of Quality of Life and Mobility Changes In Persons with Parkinson’s Disease Assistant Professor, Director of Center for Neuro-rehabilitation, Boston University; Consultant for Research Development, Program Evaluation and Staff Development, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University 40
 
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
9/1/2010-4/1/2011 The effects of breast milk Iodine, Perchlorate, and Thiocyanate concentrations on infant thyroid function Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles Endocrinology 45
Scholar: Natasha Hochberg MD, MPH
Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
7/1/2011-7/31/2014 Infectious Disease Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Epidemiology, Infectious diseases 22
  Scholar: Shruthi Mahalingaiah MD
  Appointment Period Research Topic Current Position Departmental Affiliation Total Publications
  7/1/2011-7/31/2014 Environmental exposures and gynecological disease Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology 11