Connors Center Conversations: Igniting Change for the Health of Women

On this episode of Connors Center Conversations we take the long view on the impact of stress and trauma Over a Lifetime with Dr. Kerry Ressler and Dr. Cindy Liu. They took part in the Connors Center Annual Research Seminar in Fall of 2020. Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, is chief scientific officer, Chief of the Center of Excellence in Depression and Anxiety Disorders and James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is also a professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory. Dr. Cindy Liu is the Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She has a joint appointment within the Departments of Pediatric Newborn Medicine and Psychiatry.

On this episode of Connors Center Conversations we talk with the Executive Director Dr. Hadine Joffe. Dr. Joffe is the Paula A. Johnson Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also directs the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program. Dr. Joffe is an internationally recognized clinician and clinical neuroscientist in the field of women’s aging health and women’s mental health. Her research has powerfully affected the lives of women as they age, especially those with sleep and mental health challenges.Under Dr. Joffe’s leadership, the Connors Center strives to engage the broad academic and bioscience ecosystem to ingrain a sex- and gender lens across all medical research.  She is currently launching the First.In.Women Precision Medicine Platform, which will transform the development of new treatments for diseases that affect women exclusively, predominately, or differentially.