7 a.m.
- Breakfast – registration and poster setup
8 a.m. Welcome
- Mark Cunningham Jr., Ph.D., MBA, WCBH Organizing Committee Chair
- Johnathan Tune, Ph.D., FAHA, FCVS, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Anatomy
- Paula Gregory, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Faculty & Research Development
8:15 a.m. Speaker
“Considerations When Performing Studies of Vascular Control that Include Women”
Dr. Nina Stachenfeld, Ph.D., MA Fellow, John B. Pierce Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine
9 a.m. Speaker
“Examining the Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Black Reproductive-Age Women”
Dr. Kyrah Brown, Ph.D., MA Assistant Professor and Director of MCH Equity Research Lab University of Texas at Arlington
9:45 a.m. Break
10 a.m. Speaker
“Neurovascular & Cognitive Dysfunction in Postpartum Dams”
Dr. Junie (Paula) Warrington, Ph.D., FAHA Associate Professor of Department of Neurology Associate Director, Program in Neuroscience University of Mississippi Medical Center
10:45 a.m. Student presentation
“Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Postpartum Preeclamptic Rodents”
Kylie Jones
11 a.m. Student presentation
“Induced Blood Flow Oscillations at 0.1 Hz Protects Oxygenation of Severely Ischemic Tissue in Men but Not Women”
Austin Davis
11:15 a.m. Student presentation
“A New Rodent Model of Preeclampsia: Pregnant Daughters from Hypertensive Placental Ischemic Moms Have Hypertension”
Jonna Smith
11:30 a.m. Break
11:40 a.m. Community panel discussion
“The Importance of Women’s Preventive Health Care and What We Should Do About It!”
Moderators: Dr. Jessica Bradshaw, Ph.D., and Jonna Smith
Panelists: Nina Stachenfeld, Ph.D.; Kyrah Brown, Ph.D.; Erica Thompson, Ph.D., MPH, CPH; Stacey Griner, Ph.D., MPH, CPH, RDH; and Amy Raines-Milenkov, DrPH
12:40 p.m. Lunch and poster competition
2:40 p.m. Keynote speaker
“Preeclampsia and 2400 Years of Solitude: from Hippocrates to Pattern Recognition Receptors and Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA”
Dr. Styliani (Stella) Goulopoulou, Ph.D. Founder of WCBH Symposium Loma Linda University School of Medicine
3:40 p.m. Closing remarks and awards
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