Women’s Cardiovascular and Brain Health Symposium

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

• P1: Postpartum preeclamptic rats have hypertension and elevated cerebral
  oxidative stress
  Savanna Smith, Jonna Smith, Kylie Jones, Angie Castillo, Adair McCafferty, Natalia Wiemann,
  Malissa Owen, Prakriti Srivastava, and Mark Cunningham
• P2: Does sex affect the relationship between carotid artery stiffness and the
  magnitude of induced 0.1 hz oscillatory cerebral blood flow?
  Benjamin McIntyre, Austin Davis, Nasrul Bhuiyan, and Caroline Rickards
• P3^: Brain mitochondrial dysfunction in postpartum preeclamptic rodents
  Kylie Jones, Jonna Smith, Savanna Smith, Angie Castillo, Adair McCafferty, Natalia Wiemann,
  Malissa Owen, Prakriti Srivastava, and Mark Cunningham
• P4: Relationship between brachial artery stiffness and 0.1 hz blood flow oscillations in young and healthy males and females
  Nasrul Bhuiyan, Austin Davis, Benjamin McIntyre, and Caroline Rickards
• P5: NIH toolbox cognitive battery in non-hispanic black individuals: role of cerebral vascular function, pulse wave velocity, and psychosocial stress exposure
  John Kolade, Alison Ortiz, Abanoub Abdelsaid, and R. Matthew Brothers
• P6: Sympathetic and blood pressure reactivity to acute stress in young females and males with major depressive disorder
  Ashley Darling, Benjamin Young, Rachel Skow, Cynthia Dominguez, Erika Saunders, Paul Fadel, and Jody Greaney
• P7^: Induced blood flow oscillations at 0.1 hz protects oxygenation of severely ischemic tissue in men but not women
  Austin Davis, Nasrul Bhuiyan, Benjamin McIntyre, and Caroline Rickards
• P8: Neurobehavioral outcomes of low-dose methotrexate exposure in C57BL6/J pups
  Oanh Trinh, Philip Vann, Delaney Davis, Robert Luedtke, Riyaz Basha, Meharvan Singh, and Nathalie Sumien
• P9: Changes in cerebral inflammation and blood pressure in postpartum preeclamptic rats
  Natalia Wiemann, Jonna Smith, Savanna Smith, Kylie Jones, Beatriz Castillo, Whitney Cromartie,
  Adair McCafferty, Malissa Owen, Prakriti Srivastava, and Mark Cunningham
• P10^: A new rodent model of preeclampsia: Pregnant daughters from hypertensive placental ischemic moms have hypertension
  Jonna Smith, Madison Powell, Whitney Cromartie, Savanna Smith, Kylie Jones, Angie Castillo,
  Natalia Wiemann, Adair McCafferty, Malissa Owen, Prakriti Srivastava, and Mark Cunningham
• P11: Seasonal travel stressors impact the development of hypertension in female lupus mice
  Viet Dinh and Keisa Mathis
• P12: Effects of hyperbaric oxygen on brain function and markers of neural health
  Paapa Mensah-Kane, Philip Vann, Delaney Davis, Kumudu Subasinghe, Isabelle Garlotte,
  Nicole R. Phillips, Ladislav Dory, and Nathalie Sumien
• P13: Sex and age differences in social and cognitive function in offspring
  exposed to late gestational hypoxia
  Steve Mabry, Elizabeth Wilson, Jessica Bradshaw, Jennifer Gardner, Oluwadarasimi Fadeyibi,
  Edward Vera Jr., Styliani Goulopoulou, Dimitrios Karamichos, and Rebecca Cunningham
• P14: Sex differences in the development of impaired spatial learning and tau
  protein hyper-phosphorylation in obese Zucker rats
  Paromita Das-Earl, Derek Schreihofer, and Ann Schreihofer
• P15: Oxidative stress induces non-apoptotic cell death and release of placental
  derived mitochondrial DNA
  Jennifer Gardner, Spencer C. Cushen, Jessica Bradshaw, Isabelle Garlotte, Zhengyang Zhou,
  Nicole R. Phillips, Rebecca Cunningham, and Styliani Goulopoulou

^With oral presentation