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Apr 16 2025

7th Annual UIC Women’s Health Research Day

Translating Women’s Health Research into Policy and Practice

April 16, 2025

8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location

Student Center West Thompson Rooms ABC 2nd Floor

Address

828 W. Wolcott Ave , Chicago, IL 60622

The UIC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Program, UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender, and UIC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in partnership with UIC Maternal Health Research Center are pleased to announce the: 7th Annual UIC Women’s Health Research Day.

The UIC Women’s Health Research Day features research related to women’s health and sex & gender differences in these topic areas. The event includes presentations by two keynote speakers followed by oral presentations of the top two abstracts and by the poster session.

Call for Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentations

UIC students, fellows, staff, and faculty are invited to submit an abstract on their basic, clinical or translational research in women’s health or sex- or gender medicine. Abstracts presented at other international, national, and local meetings within the past year are welcome.

The top two abstracts will be selected for brief (5-minute) oral presentations and will be awarded prizes. The other abstracts will participate in judged poster presentations. The abstracts selected for oral presentations and the top two scoring posters will be awarded prizes.

Food will be provided.

Abstracts: Deadline: March 17, 2025

Submit Abstracts

Registration: Registration is free. Advance registration required.

Register

Contact

Willow Alber-Martin

Date posted

Mar 7, 2025

Date updated

Mar 10, 2025

Speakers

Translating Research into Practice: Developing a Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence | Rachel Caskey, MD, MPP | Earl M. Bane Professor and Head Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine

From Menopause Research to Menopause Policy at the State, Federal, and Global Level | Pauline Maki, PhD | Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and OB/GYN, Senior Director of Research, Center for Research on Women & Gender Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Illinois College of Medicine