Welcome to the Oregon BIRCWH
The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), in the Director's Office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), established the BIRCWH Program in 2002 to advance mentored research career development of junior faculty who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, behavioral, clinical, or health services research in women's health. The Oregon BIRCWH program is dedicated to training tomorrow's leaders in women's health research.
The 2024 Northwest Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research Conference was held on May 8 at the OHSU Auditorium and featured Susan D. Reed, MD, MPH, MS as keynote speaker. Thank you to all of our speakers and poster presenters for your participation. We appreciate our conference co-sponsors for their support: The Oregon BIRCWH Program, OHSU Center for Women's Health, and the OHSU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
View a recording of the 2024 conference
Next year's conference will take place during OHSU Research Week May 5-9, 2025.
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Announcements and updates
BIRCWH alum Dr. Lisa Karstens has been awarded a multiple PI R01 grant through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to study overactive bladder (OAB) and how artificial intelligence-based tools could potentially enhance clinicians' ability to target the right treatments to the right patients. The research team includes co-PI Nazema Siddiqui, MD, MHSc (Duke University); and co-investigators Eric Jelovsek, MD, MMEd, MSDS (Duke University); Li Ma, PhD, Charles Page, PhD(Duke University); and A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD (UCLA).
Learn more about Dr. Karstens' multiple PI study Predicting phenotypes in benign urology
Events
BIRCWH & WRHR joint peer-to-peer meetings (virtual) - occur every other Friday from 1:00-2:30 p.m.