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MEDIA CONTACT: Nora Bredes 585.275.9283 or Helene Snihur (585) 275-7800
September 5, 2003
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in the Sanctuary of the Interfaith Chapel on River Campus.
ADMISSION: Admission to the Stanton/Anthony Conversations is free; the Eleanor Roosevelt Birthday Luncheon is $40 per person or $275 for a table of eight.
The ascent of more women into leadership positions in medicine over the past two decades is affecting how medicine is practiced.
When Dr. Bernadine Healy, for example, became the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health in 1991, she established the Women's Health Initiative to study diseases that affect women. Part of the Initiative's work was the first scientific study of hormone replacement therapy, which found enough harmful side effects to not only terminate the study last year, but also put a brake on HRT prescriptions.
An upcoming program at the University of Rochester will examine how women's emergence in medicine has changed health care for women and had an impact on both women's and men's medical care.
"Onward and Upward: How Women's Leadership is Changing Medicine" will be the topic of this year's Stanton/Anthony Conversations. The public forum, sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in the Sanctuary of the Interfaith Chapel on River Campus.
The Conversations will include a discussion by a panel of nationally known experts on how American researchers have started looking beyond reproductive differences in developing medical treatments and the implications of this research for women's and men's health. Audience members will have an opportunity to present questions to the panelists.
Prior to the forum, a luncheon celebrating the birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt will be held at noon in the River Room of the Chapel.
Panel members are:
Phyllis Greenberger, president and chief executive officer of the Society
for Women's Health Research. Greenberger spearheaded the Institute of Medicine
report, "Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex
Matter?" Her work and leadership on the boards and advisory committees
for many health-related associations and institutions has earned her an Achievement
Award from the Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine and
recognition as one of the 20 most influential women in medicine by The Medical
Herald.
Marianne Legato, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University
and founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine. Legato
is the author of the award-winning book The Female Heart: The Truth About
Women and Heart Disease and two other books on gender-specific medicine,
What Women Need to Know and Eve's Rib. She is the founder and
editor of The Journal of Gender Specific Medicine for the scientific
community and Gender and Health for the general public. In addition to
conducting cardiovascular research, Legato is a practicing internist.
Vivian Pinn, director of the Office of Research on Women's Health and
associate director of Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health. After
becoming the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of
Virginia School of Medicine in 1967, she trained in pathology at Massachusetts
General Hospital, taught at Harvard Medical School, and was on the medical faculty
at Tufts and Howard universities. She recently led a national effort to reexamine
priorities for women's health research for the 21st century.
Susan Wood, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of
Women's Health. From 1990 to 1995, Wood worked for the Congressional Caucus
for Women's Issues, an organization of members of Congress who advanced legislation
promoting legal, economic, and health equity for women. She helped develop and
promote the Women's Health Equity Act and was involved with many policy initiatives
and legislative proposals for biomedical research, women's health, family planning,
and health care reform.
Keynote speaker for the Eleanor Roosevelt Birthday Luncheon earlier in the day is Ellen More, professor of history and medical humanities at the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. More, who received her master's degree and doctorate in history from the University of Rochester, is curator for an upcoming exhibit at the National Library of Medicine, "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians." She will speak on the history of women in medicine.
Admission to the Stanton/Anthony Conversations is free; the Eleanor Roosevelt Birthday Luncheon is $40 per person or $275 for a table of eight. Reservations are required and should be made by Wednesday, Oct. 8, online at www.rochester.edu/SBA or by calling (585) 275-8799.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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