BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:131@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221026T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221026T114500 DTSTAMP:20250107T152800Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/aug-17-2022-mind-gap-ho rmonal-contraceptives-and-brain-health-symposium-1-imaging-brain/ SUMMARY:Mind the Gap: Hormonal Contraceptives and Brain Health—Symposium 1: Imaging the Brain on Hormonal Contraceptives DESCRIPTION:\n\nThis symposium is part of our virtual "Mind the Gap: Hor monal Contraceptives and Brain Health" series\, which brings attention to the brain health issues that women+ face and encourage the medical\, scie ntific and commercial communities to address them. In this session\, we w ill hear from three renowned speakers who will discuss pertinent topics re lated to the effects of hormonal contraceptives on brain structure and fun ction. Attendees will also get a chance to join the conversation during a Q&\;A period to close the session. Dr. Nafissa Ismail will moderate th e event and facilitate conversation.\nAgenda\n10:00-10:05—Welcome Remark s\n\n10:05-10:30—Speaker 1: Dr. Caitlin Taylor\, University of Californi a (SB)\, Santa Barbara\, California\, USA\n\n10:30-10:55—Speaker 2: Dr. Michael L. Lipton\, Einstein College of Medicine\, New York\, USA\n\n10:55 -11:20—Speaker 3: Dr. Nafissa Ismail\, University of Ottawa\, Ottawa\, O ntario\n\n11:20-11:45—Q&\;A\nIndividual Event Cost\nGeneral Public: $ 15\n\nStudents: $10\n\nWe offer you the option of registering for individ ual events or signing up for the entire series. Video recordings of our conference sessions will be sent to all registrants following each event. Register for this individual event below.\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nBios\n\n \n\n\nDr. Nafissa Ismail\n\nTalk Title: The Effects of Pubertal Exposure to Oral Contraceptives on Brain Structure and Function \n\nBio: Dr. Nafi ssa Ismail is a Full Professor at the School of Psychology at the Universi ty of Ottawa and the holder of a University Research Chair in Stress and M ental Health. She obtained her PhD from Concordia University in 2009. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Massachuset ts and joined the University of Ottawa in 2012. Her research expertise is in Neuroimmunology and Neuroendocrinology. She was awarded Young Researche r of Year by the University of Ottawa in 2017\, the Early Researcher Award by the province of Ontario in 2018\, and was also awarded the prize for a ctivity in the media and in the community 2021 by the Faculty of Social Sc iences. She is also a member of the Global Young Academy and she has been elected to the College of New Scholars\, Artists and Scientists of the Roy al Society of Canada as of this year.\n\n\n\nDr. Caitlin Taylor\n\nTalk Ti tle: Striatal Dopamine Synthesis and Cognitive Flexibility Differ Between Hormonal Contraceptive Users and Non-user\n\nBio: Dr. Caitlin Taylor rece ived her B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in French from Indiana University-Blo omington\, and her PhD in Neuroscience from Georgetown University. Dr. Tay lor's graduate work focused on investigating age- and experience-dependent modulation of coherent visual motion processing using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As a postdoctoral fellow in the Jacobs Lab\, Dr. Taylor uses MRI to investigate the effects of oral contraceptive use on t he brain\, as well  to study the effects of sex hormones on the hippocamp us. She is the recipient of a 2018 SAGE Junior Fellowship and the 2019 Har vey L. Karp Discovery Award. Outside of the lab\, she is interested in sha ring her love of science through science education and outreach.\n\n\n\nDr . Michael Lipton\n\nTalk Title: OCP Effects on Hypothalamus: Clues and Li mitations\n\nBio: Dr. Lipton\, a neuroradiologist and neuroscientist\, is Professor in the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center\, Department of Radiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as Medical Direct or of MRI Services at its University Hospital\, Montefiore Medical Center\ , both in New York. He divides his professional time between the clinical practice of neuroradiology\, teaching and research. Dr. Lipton’s transla tional research broadly seeks to characterize brain mechanisms linking env ironmental exposures to brain dysfunction and to understand how these rela tionships are modified by individual characteristics\, such as sex and gen es. His research program currently applies MRI to characterize brain micro structure and function in the contexts of repeated head impacts in sports as well as SARS-CoV-2 infection and aging. Dr. Lipton’s work on the impa ct of “heading” on brain structure and function in amateur soccer play ers\, funded by the Dana Foundation and the National Institutes of Health\ , has received extensive worldwide scientific and lay-press attention.\n\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2024/11/mtg_brain_health_conference_-_2022_website_jpg_0.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR