Date & Location
Health of Women 2025 Award Winners
Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health - Carolyn Mazure, PhD
Vivian Pinn Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Research - Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD, MPH
Women's Health Public Policy & Advocacy Award - Rachel Rubin, MD
Women's Health Research Pre-conference Symposium
Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET | Virtual
This session is presented by Society for Women's Health Research. No CME or CEU credit is offered.
Emerging Topics in Women’s Health: Minding the Depression Gap
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is committed to making women’s health mainstream by promoting research on biological sex differences and increasing awareness of health conditions and diseases that disproportionately, differently, or exclusively affect women. Depressive disorders – one of the leading contributors to disability – have a disproportionate prevalence and impact on women. Depressive disorders include both major depressive disorder (MDD) and persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), and from 2015 to 2018, there were statistically significant increases in major depressive episodes among adolescent girls (ages 12-17) and young adult women (ages 18-25). This symposium will discuss the impacts of depressive disorders on women’s health, with special emphasis on chronic depression, physiological sex differences in disease, and disparities in clinical care. Panelists will present strategies as to how research, clinical, and policy stakeholders can collaborate to address persistent research gaps, disparities, and unmet needs in treating depression in women. Attendees will then engage in Q&A with the panel to discuss approaches to improve mental health outcomes for women across the lifespan.
- Describe recent advances in screening and treatment of topics related to women's health, as it relates to congestive heart failure and cardio metabolic disorders.
- Describe the pertinent current screening strategies for cervical cancer screening, utilizing the most recent screening guidelines.
- Identify evidenced based strategies currently in use with patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
- Explain how to provide care, counsel and education to patients with Substance-Use Disorder and provide tools to overcome barriers to recovery.
- Summarize the most current evidenced-based diagnosis and management strategies to address successful diabetic care with women.
- Recall evidence-based approaches to the management of gestational complications and cardiac risk in the pregnant patient.
- Review the most current research to treat genitourinary symptoms with vaginal estrogen.
- Discuss the impact of current and future national research in women's health
- Identify cutting-edge approaches to challenging cases of osteoporosis.
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VCU Health Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
VCU Health Continuing Education designates this activity for a maximum of 7 ANCC contact hours, including 3.15 pharmacotherapeutic contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity provides 7 contact hours (0.7 CEUs) of continuing education credit. ACPE Universal Activity Number (UAN): JA4008237-0000-25-018-L01-P
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