Historical failure to include women in research studies has led to inadequate attention to gender differences in health and disease. UCSF is a nationally designated Center of Excellence in Women’s Health designed to help address this and other inequities in patient care.
Course chair: Jeanette S. Brown, MD, UCSF professor and director of the UCSF Women’s Continence Center, and co-director of the UCSF Women’s Health Clinical Research Center.
Breast Cancer Prevention: A New Hope
April 28
Jeffrey Tice, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine, and Mary Beattie, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine. Learn how women can assess and reduce their risk of breast cancer and look ahead to preventive therapies on the horizon.
Memory Loss: Is It Just Normal Aging?
May 5
Kristine Yaffe, MD, UCSF associate professor of psychiatry, neurology, and epidemiology and biostatistics.
Discover how to distinguish normal aging from something more serious as well as methods to possibly prevent dementia.
Urinary Incontinence in Women: The Hidden Epidemic
May 12
Jeanette S. Brown, MD, UCSF professor and director of the UCSF Women’s Continence Center, and co-director of the UCSF Women’s Health Clinical Research Center.
Hear an update on prevention, new treatments and research involving a condition that affects nearly half of all women.
Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy: What Have We Learned So Far?
May 19
Deborah Grady, MD, MPH, UCSF professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and director of the UCSF Women’s Health Clinical Research Center. Hear the stories behind the headlines of hormone therapy.
Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Three Emerging Epidemics
May 26
Alka Kanaya, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine. Hear about the prevention of diabetes, treatments for obesity and diabetes, and under-recognized complications of diabetes that are specific to women.
A Heart-to-Heart About Women’s Heart Disease
June 2
Kirsten Fleischman, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine. Discover what you can do to help prevent the number-one killer of women.
