Women's Health Research Symposium

Everyone, please join us for the 2023 Women's Health Research Symposium: Navigating the Post-Roe Landscape. This year we are excited to bring respected researchers together to broach this topic and delve into the impact of overturning Roe v Wade on women's health. This symposium will occur fully virtually, please expect a confirmation email after registering. Please use the following link to register, https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ec5dce3b-0318-46a9-95b9-e9c8ecd71156@ef575030-1424-4ed8-b83c-12c533d879ab.

11:05 am Introduction

11:10 am Navigating the new legal landscape- Dr. Wright Clayton

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, is the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Health Policy, and Co-Founder of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt Law School.  Her work is truly transdisciplinary, combining empirical, normative, and legal analytic methods to address real-world challenges.  An internationally respected scholar, she has focused for many years on ethical, legal, and social issues presented by conducting research in genetics and genomics and the impact of translating these advances in clinical care and the broader society as well as issues related to women’s and children’s health and wellbeing for many years. She is a founding member of the Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.  She has been very involved particularly in issues related to privacy and clinical care post-Dobbs and is currently teaching a course on Reproductive Justice in the Law School. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, where she has served on 11 consensus committees and the Executive Committee and was Co-Chair of Report Review.

11:45 am CHOICES: Center for Reproductive Health- Ms. Pepper, MBA 30 min

12:20 pm Implications for prenatal genetic testing after reversal of Roe v. Wade in the United States: Updates- Dr. Al-Kouatly and Julie Barbera, MPH 30 min

In this lecture, we will dive into the research behind our work titled, Implications for prenatal genetic testing after reversal of Roe v. Wade in the United States and provide an update based on the most recent changes in legal landscape. We will explore the interplay between prenatal genetic testing, various screening and diagnostic methods, as well as changing abortion regulations since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. We will explain the relationship between genetic test timing and legal abortion availability, with insights based on analysis of state-specific abortion restrictions. Discover how gestational age-based abortion restrictions influence patient choices and medical practices, such as possible influence to favor chorionic villous sampling over amniocentesis. Please join us to grasp the complex landscape of genetic testing, abortion laws, and healthcare decisions.

Dr. Huda Al-Kouatly is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and Clinical Geneticist at Thomas Jefferson University. She did Ob/Gyn residency at the American University of Beirut and Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. She has done two fellowships: one in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and the second Maternal-Fetal Medicine Genetics at NHGRI/Medstar Washington Hospital Center. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She is the Director of Prenatal Ultrasound and Reproductive Genetics at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr Al-Kouatly’s research focus is the genetic etiology of nonimmune hydrops fetalis and fetal malformations. She has the passion to teach Genetics to medical students, residents, fellows and genetic counseling students. She is the Medical Director of the Genetic Counseling Graduate School at Thomas Jefferson University.

Julie Barbera is currently in her final year as a MD/MPH student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University with plans to pursue a residency in Ob/Gyn. She graduated from Cornell University in 2017 with a degree in Human Development and concentration in neuroscience. Before medical school, she worked for two years as a research assistant in a basic science laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Throughout medical school, Julie has been involved in student groups such as Medical Students for Choice and Ob/Gyn Journal Club. She is also a founding member of her school’s chapter of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry, which aims to improve healthcare for patients with disabilities. Between her third and fourth year of medical school, she earned her MPH and engaged in multiple research projects with Jefferson’s department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

12:55 pm Consequences for future congenital malformation - Dr. Anderson 30 min

Brett R. Anderson, MD MBA MS/POR, is a pediatric cardiologist, an NIH-funded health services researcher, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and the inaugural Director for the Center for Child Health Services Research in the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine.  Dr. Anderson blends her medical, business, and statistical backgrounds for the purposes of identifying modifiable drivers of outcomes, value, and health inequities associated with the management of pediatric heart disease. She has examined the effects of provider characteristics, surgical timing, and social determinants of health.  She is the founder and director of the New York State Congenital Heart Surgery Collaborative for Longitudinal Outcomes and Utilization of Resources (CHS-COLOUR), an interdisciplinary collaborative that brings together leadership and data from all congenital heart surgical centers in New York State, health services researchers, and the Department of Health, to examine etiologies of health inequities and plan for programmatic interventions.  She received her undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude from Yale University. She then completed her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a Master’s in Business Administration from The Wharton School, and a Master’s in Patient Oriented Research/Biostatistics from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She completed her general pediatrics residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, prior to joining Columbia’s faculty in 2013. She is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health / National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (R01 HL150044).

1:25 pm - 5-minute break before panel

1:30 pm - 30-minute panel

We will be providing DoorDash lunch credits to the first 100 registrees!