Attend VA Research Week Symposium on Women’s Health Issues May 6, BUSM Faculty to Present
Medical Campus faculty, postdocs and researchers are encouraged to take advantage of a one day event in support of National VA Research Week. This year’s event highlights women’s health issues. Research by VA and VA-affiliated researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the VA Boston Healthcare System’s National Center for PTSD will be featured. For maximum convenience the event has been configured to last one day, May 6, and includes a plenary session followed by a poster session.
The program includes:
- 11:00 am, “Psychological Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Current Data and Directions in the Women’s Health Study,” Michelle Albert, MD, MPH, Director of Behavioral and Neurocardiovascular Cardiology, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
- 12:00 p.m., luncheon
- 12:30 p.m., “Women at War: Stressors Faced by a New Generation of Women Veterans,” by Amy Street, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, VA Boston Healthcare System and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, BUSM;
- 1:00 p.m., “What Research in Women Is Revealing About Pathophysiology and Treatment of PTSD,” by Ann Rasmusson, MD, Research Affiliate, VABHS and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, BUSM.
- 2:00-5:00 p.m., Poster Session at West Roxbury Elk’s Club (across street)
The plenary session takes place at the Barsamian Auditorium (building 1, room 3C108) of the West Roxbury VA Medical Center, 1400 VFW Parkway, Jamaica Plain and the poster session follows immediately across the street, at the West Roxbury Elks Club.
For more information contact Kirsten Levy at klevy@bu.edu.