Connors Center Conversations: Igniting Change for the Health of Women

The Fundamentals of Difference with Dr. Hadine Joffe

Episode Summary

On this episode of Connors Center Conversations we talk with the Executive Director Dr. Hadine Joffe. Under Dr. Joffe’s leadership, the Connors Center strives to engage the broad academic and bioscience ecosystem to ingrain a sex- and gender lens across all medical research. She is currently launching the First.In.Women Precision Medicine Platform, which will transform the development of new treatments for diseases that affect women exclusively, predominately, or differentially.

Episode Notes

On this episode of Connors Center Conversations we talk with the Executive Director Dr. Hadine Joffe

Dr. Joffe is the Paula A. Johnson Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also directs the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program. Dr. Joffe is an internationally recognized clinician and clinical neuroscientist in the field of women’s aging health and women’s mental health. Her research has powerfully affected the lives of women as they age, especially those with sleep and mental health challenges.

Under Dr. Joffe’s leadership, the Connors Center strives to engage the broad academic and bioscience ecosystem to ingrain a sex- and gender lens across all medical research.  She is currently launching the First.In.Women Precision Medicine Platform, which will transform the development of new treatments for diseases that affect women exclusively, predominately, or differentially.