Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, U of Colorado
Biography
Dr. Regensteiner is Director of the Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research. Her research expertise is in the cardiovascular effects of diabetes with a specific focus on women with type 2 diabetes. Her lab has been funded for over 30 years and her more than 180 publications have influenced the field. She is a Principal Investigator for the National Institutes of Health's Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) grant and the Doris Duke Foundation's Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists as well as a Principal Investigator on a NIH RO1 for her research on the cardiovascular consequences of type 2 diabetes. She is on the Advisory Committee for the NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health. She is also an alumna of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (ELAM) and is on the steering committee of the national Leaders in Women's Health group.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Co-Chairs:
Yoel Sadovsky, UPMC
C. Noel Bairey Merz, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Program Theme: Women's Health Innovation.
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: Nanette K. Wenger, Emory University
Luminary Honoree: Diana Bianchi, NIH
- Keynote: Understanding the Journey : Women and Coronary Heart Disease
- Nanette K. Wenger, Emory University
- Keynote: Prenatal Cell-Free DNA Sequencing and Incidental Detection of Maternal Cancer
- Diane Bianchi, NIH
- Innovations in Alzheimer's and Women's Health: Leveraging Omics for Precision Medicine
Chair: Aparna Vasanthakumar, Abbvie
- Duygu Tosun-Turgut, UCSF
- Innovations in Women's Cardiovascular Health: From Research to Practice (PANEL)
Chair: Noel Bairey Merz, Cedars-Sinai
- Janet Wright, CDC
- Judy Regensteiner, University of Colorado
- Garima Sharma, Inova Health System
- Roxana Mehran, Mount Sinai - From Fertility to Pregnancy
Chair: Yoel Sadovsky, Magee Women's Research Inst.
- Linda Giudice, UCSF (Data-Driven Approaches in Endometriosis Research)
- Paolo Rinaudo, UCSF (Harnessing Data to Enhance Fertility Research and Treatments)
- Vittorio Sebastiano, Stanford (Stem Cells in Fertility and Aging)
- Ruth Bunker Lathi, Stanford (Differentiating Maternal and Fetal Causes of Miscarriage to Improve Outcomes)
- Aleksandar Rajkovic, UCSF (Genetic Insights into Uterine Fibroids and Fertility)
- PMWC Showcase
- Neha Kumar, J&J
- PMWC Showcase
- Kaylene Ready, Juniper Genomics
- Prediction of Pregnancy Health
- Leslie Manace, Kaiser
- Harnessing Pre-Pregnancy Data to Predict Pregnancy Health
Chair: Yoel Sadovsky, Magee Women's Research Inst.
- Priya Pantham, UCSD (Advancements in RNA-based Biomarker Discovery for gestational diseases)
- Mike Snyder, Stanford (The Role of Biological Clocks in Pregnancy: Insights from Multi-Omics Analysis)
- Alison Paquette, Seattle Children's Research Institute (Multi-Omics Analysis of the Placenta: Unlocking New Insights into Pregnancy Health)
