Session Chair Profile
Biography
Dr. Aleksandar Rajkovic serves as the Medical Director and Chief of the Center for Genetic and Genomic Medicine (CGGM) that organizes, coordinates and oversees Clinical Genetics and Genomics Services across the UCSF Health System. He is also Stuart Lindsay Distinguished Professor in Experimental Pathology I, member of the American Society of Clinical Investigator, American Association of Physicians and National Academy of Medicine. His research interests lie in basic and translational medical sciences in reproductive and population genetics. His current work focuses on implementing precision medicine tools across UCSF and evaluate its clinical significance and validity.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2022 Silicon Valley
Track Co-Chairs:
Aleksandar Rajkovic, UCSF
Researchers have long been recognizing the uniqueness of women’s health and its substantial effect on clinical practice, acknowledging the increasing appreciation of the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to health and disease. In every organ system, there are diseases that are unique to women, more common in women than in men, or characterized by differences in disease course in women compared to men. This Track will focus on the following topics related to Women’s Health:
- Intro to Women's Health
- Aleksandar Rajkovic, UCSF - Reproductive Health
- Hakan Cakmak, UCSF
- Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, UCSF - Pregnancy (PANEL)
Session Chair: Yoel Sadovsky, University of Pittsburgh
- Virginia D. Winn, Stanford
- Ananth Karumanchi, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Mira Moufarrej, Stanford University
- Liang Liang, 9 MONTHS - Carrier Screening: Perspective on the new ACMG Practice Resource
- James D Goldberg, Women's Health Medical Affairs
- Biological Sex Differences in Disease + Inclusion of Women in Clinical Research/Innovation
- Rhonda Voskuhl, UCLA
- Cardiovascular Health
- Nisha Parikh, UCSF
- Jennifer Ann Tremmel, Stanford - Bone Health/Osteoporosis & Menopause (PANEL)
Session Chair: Risa Kagan, UCSF, Sutter Health
- Danit Ariel, Stanford
- Massimiliano (Max) de Zambotti, SRI International - Showcase
- Carrie Haverty, Mirvie
- Brian D. Brohman, NX Prenatal
- Ripudaman Singh, ARCEDI Biotech
- Claire Tomkins, Future Family
- Donna Russell, Precia Group
- Adam de la Zerda, Visby Medical, Inc.