Women's Health Research Day to feature presentations on dozens of topics
| March 18, 2005 | |
| CHAPEL HILL — Women’s health researchers statewide will give presentations on the latest research, including breast cancer, preventive care, eating disorders and health disparities, at the sixth annual Women’s Health Research Day, to be held Wednesday (March 23) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Medical Biomolecular Research Building. UNC Chancellor James Moeser will give opening remarks, followed by competitively selected podium presentations and displays of research findings. N.C. Gov. Mike Easley has proclaimed March 23, 2005, as Women’s Health Research Day in North Carolina.
The event is sponsored by UNC’s Center for Women’s Health Research, based in UNC’s School of Medicine. “Many of the research day topics will help in the designing of interventions to eliminate health disparities and decrease women’s morbidity from a variety of diseases,” said Dr. Ruth Petersen, director of women’s preventive health research at the center and research assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in UNC’s School of Medicine. Topics to be presented include cancer therapeutics, uterine fibroids, relationship of crime rates to preterm birth, adolescent health behaviors, partner violence, treatment options for women with chronic pelvic pain and many more. “Research Day is an opportunity for each of us to enlarge our circle of research colleagues, to consider all we have accomplished and build the vision of how many more challenging questions we will be able to answer by building on UNC’s exceptionally strong tradition of interdisciplinary research,” said Dr. Katherine Hartmann, director of the Center for Women’s Health Research. Hartmann also is assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in UNC’s School of Medicine and of epidemiology in the School of Public Health. Presentations will represent more than 30 departments and organizations at UNC, as well as the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, East Carolina University, the N.C. Center for Health Statistics and others. A judges’ panel will select four award recipients at the end of the day recognizing excellence in innovative research methods, interdisciplinary approaches, important new research areas and a young investigator of exceptional promise. The Center for Women’s Health Research was founded in 2000 to drive growth of large-scale interdisciplinary research including career development for women’s health investigators in an environment promoting creativity while stressing rigorous science. To view the full agenda of events and speakers or to register, contact Anita Baldi at (919) 966-7928 or visit www.cwhr.unc.edu.
Center for Women’s Health Research contact: Anita Baldi, (919) 966-7928 News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu For further information please contact Emily Smith either by phone at 919.966.8498 or by email at emily_smith@unc.edu |
