Inaugural Women’s Health Research Day held in April 2014

Frances "Franny" Wales, BS, then a project coordinator for Penn State, is seen with a poster on which she collaborated at Women's Health Research Day 2014.

The inaugural Women’s Health Research Day was held at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey on April 8, 2014. More than 65 faculty members, students and trainees attended from the College of Medicine, College of Health and Human Development, College of Liberal Arts and Penn State Harrisburg.

The keynote address, “Should We Scrap Screening Mammography?” was presented by Karen Freud, MD, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director for Research Collaboration in the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The program also included oral research presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion on “Health Care Reform and Women’s Preventive Health Care.”

The award for best oral presentation by a faculty member went to Erika Saunders, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, for her talk “Sleep Disturbance Predicts the Frequency of Clinically Significant Depressive Symptoms in Women with Bipolar Disorder.” The award for best oral presentation by a student or trainee went to Dana Schirk, at the time a second-year medical student, for her talk “Impact of Social Support on the Risk for Eating Disorders in Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence.”

The conference, sponsored by the Center for Women’s Health Research, was organized by Cynthia Chuang, MD, MSc, and a cross-campus planning committee. Funding for the conference was provided by the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies of the College of Medicine.

Women’s Health Research Day attendees from Penn State’s Department of Kinesiology gather for a group photo at the event.

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