The Littlefield Women’s Health Medical Forum
The Women's Health Medical Forum is designed to offer medical colleagues regular exposure to recent Women's Health research findings, from across medical disciplines.
This multi-disciplinary mix of topics reinforces Women's Health at Stanford's commitment to an integrated, comprehensive view of Women's Health.
In addition, this monthly series is part of the Women's Health Scholarly Concentration curriculum, allowing Stanford Medical Students to earn course credits.
Upcoming Speakers
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 | May Han, MD | "Identifying Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Targets... the Path to Personalized Treatment?" |
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (Doors open at 11:45 am)
Location: Stanford Medical School Classrooms M-112, Dean's Courtyard
Lunch: Sponsored by Women's Health
Fee: Free
Questions: Contact Women’s Health at Stanford Program Coordinator, Tracy Lindsay (tracyl@stanford.edu or 650-725-0455).
Past Speakers
Academic Year 2007-2008
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | David Hirschberg, PhD/TD> | "Stanford's Human Immune System Monitoring Center: Implications for the Health of Women" |
| Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | Douglas Owens, MD, MS | "Do the benefits of screening mammography outweigh the harms in women 40 to 49 years of age?" |
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | Barry Behr, PhD, HCDL | "The Ultimate Personalized Health Forecaster... Embryo Evaluation?" |
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | Michael McConnell, MD, MSEE | "The Role of Imaging in Women's Cardiovascular Health Care " |
| Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD | "The Impact of Depression on Women's Cardiovascular Disease" |
| Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | David Spiegel, MD | "Does Living Better with Cancer Mean Living Longer?" |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | Jane Chueh, MD | "Prenatal Diagnosis-Too Many Choices?" |
| Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | Randall Stafford, MD, PhD | "Dietary Supplements for Menopausal Symptoms: An Alternative to Hormone Therapy?" |
Academic Year 2006-2007
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | Brendan Carvalho, MBBCh, FRCA, MDCH | "Pain Management For Labor and Delivery in the 21st Century" |
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 | Allison Kurian, MD, MSc | "Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Risk Reduction Strategies" |
| Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | Rick Burney, MD | "Gene Expression Analysis of Endometrium Reveals Progesterone Resistance and Candidate Susceptibility Genes in Women with Endometriosis" |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 | Heather Wakelee, MD | "Not just the Marlboro Man - Lung Cancer in Women" |
| Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | Rebecka Peebles, MD | "The Impact of the Internet on Adolescent Females with Eating Disorders" |
| Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | Jennifer Tremmel, MD, SM | "Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in Women" |
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 | Christopher Gardner, PhD | "The Battle of the Diets: Is anyone winning (at losing?)" |
| Friday, December 8, 2006 | Victor Henderson, MD | "Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Gender Matters" |
| Wenesday, November 15, 2006 | Judy Lacy, MD | "Congenital Anomalies of the Female Reproductive Tract" |
| Friday, October 20, 2006 | Bill Robinson, MD, PhD | "Gleevac for the Treatment of Autoimmunity?" |
| Wednesday, September 20, 2006 | Nishita Kothary, MD | “Peripheral Vascular Disease in Women" |
Academic Year 2005-2006
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| September 21, 2005 | William Dement, MD | "Basic Essentials of Sleep that Nobody Knows" |
| October 19, 2005 | Sabine Girod, MD, DDS, PhD | "Craniofacial Disorders in Women, Including TMJ" |
| November 16, 2005 | Kathy Turner, NP | "Healing Partners: Healing Touch for Breast Cancer Patients" |
| December 16, 2005 | Lynn Kohlmeier, MD | "Osteoporosis Update: What’s New in Bone Density, Quality & Therapy" |
| January 18, 2006 | Eric Sokol, MD | "Innovative Surgical Treatments for Stress Urinary Incontinence" |
| February 17, 2006 | Marcia Stefanick, PhD | "The WHI Diet Trial and Calcium/Vitamin D Trial Results" |
| March 15, 2006 | Alan Reiss, MD | "Gender Differences to Humor... A Brain Sciences Study" |
| April 19, 2006 | Lawrence Steinman, MD | "Intermediary Metabolism Might Provide An Understanding of Why Females are More Susceptible to MS" |
| May 17, 2006 | Rick Burney, MD | "Endometriosis: Enigmas and Insights" |
| June 21, 2006 | Marcia Stefanick, PhD | "Cardiovascular Health and Women: The Launch of “Her Heart”" |
| July 19, 2006 | Ashima Madan, MD | "Asian-Indian Women and Low Birth Weight Infants" |
| August 16, 2006 | Irene Wapnir, MD | Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment Strategies |
April 2004 - August 2005
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| April 21, 2004 | Katrina Karkazis, MD | "Issues on Gender and Sex Reassignment Surgery in Newborns" |
| May 19, 2004 | Mark Tasmani, MD & Nihar Nayak, PhD, DVM | "Angiogenic Factors and Preeclampsia" |
| June 16, 2004 | Marcia Stefanick, PhD | "Women’s Health Initiative" |
| July 21, 2004 | Mary Lake Polan, MD, PhD, MPH | "Evaluating Female Sexual Arousal: Defining a Protocol" |
| August 18, 2004 | Maureen Cawley, Pharm D | "Herbal Supplements for Women’s Health" |
| September 15, 2004 | Sheila Coogan, MD | "Carotid Disease in Wome" |
| October 26, 2004 | Christy Dosiou, MD | "Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy" |
| November 17, 2004 | Rick Burney, MD | "Endometriosis" |
| December 15, 2004 | Wes Alles, PhD | "“Type A” Behavior Pattern in Women" |
| January 19, 2005 | Ron Rosenfeld, MD | "Are Boys Really Taller than Girls? The Evolution of Gender Differences in Height" |
| February 16, 2005 | Rachel Manber, PhD | "Acupuncture and Maternal Depression" |
| March 16, 2005 | Latha Palaniappan, MD | "Weight Management for Women: Implications of High BMI as a Risk Factor for Disease" |
| April 20, 2005 | Eliza Chakravarty, MD | "Systemic Lupus Erythematosus" |
| May 18, 2005 | Harise Stein, MD | "Domestic Violence" |
| June 15, 2005 | Marcia Stefanick, PhD | "WHI Study: Risk of Cardiovascular Disease by Hysterectomy Status" |
| July 20, 2005 | John Chan, MD | "Hormones and Women’s Cancers" |
| August 17, 2005 | Deirdre Lyell, MD | "Effects of Common Cesarean Delivery Methods on Intra-abdominal Adhesions" |
