2018 Lipsett Lecture: " Oncofertility: From Bench to Bedside to Babies "

The Lipsett Lecture is an annual lecture held by NICHD to honor Dr. Mortimer B. Lipsett, Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), who died of cancer on November 10, 1985 at the Clinical Center. This year's speaker will be Dr. Teresa K. Woodruff, Dean and Associate Provost for Graduate Education in The Graduate School at Northwestern University and Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics& Gynecology, the Vice Chair for Research and the Chief of the Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fienberg School of Medicine, Professor of Molecular Biosciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering, Director of the Center for Reproductive Science, Director of Women's Health Research Institute, and Director of Oncofertility Consortium. She is an internationally recognized expert in ovarian biology and, in 2006, coined the term " oncofertility " to describe the merging of two fields: oncology and fertility. She now heads the Oncofertility Consortium, an interdisciplinary team of biomedical and social scientist experts from across the country. The title of her talk is, " Oncofertility: From Bench to Bedside to Babies " .Air date: 6/15/2018 2:15:00 PM
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