Research in this area deals with the transitions through a woman’s life, beginning with early childhood development through puberty, adult life and menopause. These transitions are especially important as women are more frequently delaying child birth until their later years. Each stage is critical to sustain women’s health and quality of life. The dynamic hormonal changes that accompany each life stage can significantly impact all aspects of women’s health, including bone, reproductive and cardiovascular health, metabolism and cancer.

Faculty:

Jonathan Butcher: medical device technology design, soft tissue biomechanics, cardiovascular disease
Barbara Chubak, MD: sexual dysfunction, regenerative medicine, cosmetic genital surgery, bioethics
Paula Cohen: gamete development and chromosomal abnormalities, contraception
Arunika Das: reproductive aging, early pregnancy loss, embryo development
Katerina Dodelzon: breast cancer screening, breast cancer surveillance for high risk populations
Tamatha Fenster, MD: pelvic surgery, women’s health technology innovation
Cori Green: pediatric mental health integration
Alison Hermann, MD: perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, menopause and mental health, reproductive psychiatry education
Gunisha Kaur: global health, refugee health, forcibly displaced populations
Amy Kuceyeski: women’s brain health, neuroimaging, AI
Siu Sylvia Lee: metabolic regulation, gene expression regulation
Marla Lujan: folliculogenesis, menstrual cycle, polycystic ovary syndrome, adolescent reproductive transition
Roberta Marongiu: menopause, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease
David S. Matteson: AI, data science, statistics
Jane Mendle: mental health, puberty, adolescence
Kelly Musick: social context of childbearing, gendered costs of parenting
Nozomi Nishimura: neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease
Kimberly O’Brien: nutrition, pregnancy, placental nutrient trafficking, bone health, anemia, osteoporosis
Lauren M. Osborne, MD: perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
Sallie Permar: congenital infections, maternal vaccination, maternal-infant immunology
Ned Place: obstetrics and gynecology, endocrinology, ovarian development and aging
Lisa Placanica: intellectual property, commercial partnerships, new venture creation
Diana Punko: post-partum psychosis, substance use disorders in pregnancy
Yi Athena Ren: ovarian biology, reproductive endocrinology, reproductive biotechnology
Sunita Sah: gender differences in medical care, decision-making, social and interpersonal factors
Chris B. Schaffer: neurodegenerative disease, animal models of menopause, in vivo optical imaging
Ayshwarya Subramanian: autoimmune disease, Alzheimer’s disease, menopause
Rulla Tamimi: cancer, cancer risk assessment, screening
Ceren Tozlu: menopause, multiple sclerosis, hormones, aging
Marjolein van der Meulen: musculoskeletal health, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
Kayla Wolf: reproductive tissue engineering and mechanobiology