Meetings and Events

This is a listing of select research meetings, general resources, and events of interest to women’s health researchers. If you have suggestions for additions, please contact Patti Stauffer.

University of Miami's Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success (SEEDS).  The National Academies report Beyond Bias and Barriers, chaired by President Donna E. Shalala, documented that, despite advances in the proportion of women and other underrepresented minorities in science and engineering graduate programs, the proportion who become faculty continues to lag behind. Accordingly, the University of Miami Provost Tom LeBlanc has established a University-level SEEDS office as a focus for diversity programs across all three UM campuses. SEEDS orchestrates grass-roots efforts to study and improve our climate and policies. SEEDS has been awarded an NSF grant for seven programs designed to provide opportunities for all scientists and engineers at UM. 

For more information on the UM SEEDS Program, please visit:  http://www.as.miami.edu/SEEDS/. 

OSSD Third Annual Meeting
June 4-6, 2009
Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel
Toronto, Ontario

The Organization for the Study of Sex Differences is convening its third annual scientific meeting from June 4-6, 2009 in Toronto, ON, Canada. The program includes Jeanne T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D. as the Keynote Lecturer and Virginia M. Miller, Ph.D. as the Capstone Lecturer. The rest of the program is composed of seven symposia and two poster sessions. Symposia topics include sex differences in: pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics and drug development; childhood obesity: manifestations and mechanisms; sex chromosomes and autoimmunity; progenitor and stem cells: implications for tissue injury, repair, and regeneration; cerebral vascular biology and stroke; knee osteoarthritis; and cognition. The deadline for poster abstract submissions is March 16, 2009. Visit http://www.ossdweb.org/ to view the full agenda and register. Contact Viviana Simon, Ph.D. (viviana@ossdweb.org) for additional information.

2009 AcademyHealth Gender and Health Interest Group Meeting and Annual Research Meeting
June 27-30, 2009
Chicago, IL

The Gender and Health Interest Group of AcademyHealth is soliciting abstracts describing cutting edge research on Gender and Health for presentation at its 2009 Annual Research Meeting and the Gender and Health Interest Group Meeting. Academy Health is seeking abstracts from researchers who are conducting health services or health policy research on women’s health or gender-based issues.  Abstracts are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on January 15, 2009.  500 word abstracts must be submitted online to be considered.
 
For more information about AcademyHealth got to  http://www.academyhealth.org/
To submit an abstract, log in at www.academyhealth.org/arm/abstracts/login.cfm.