Drs. Laura Kirkpatrick, Sonya Borrero, Elizabeth Miller, Mehret Birru Talabi, and Traci Kazmerski interviewed women with epilepsy (WWE) about their perspectives, preferences, and experiences regarding sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care.
Read more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35247834/
Faculty members Sonya Borrero, MD, MS, Suji Uhm, MD, MPH, Marian Jarlenski, PhD, Mehret Birru Talabi, MD, PhD, and Greer Donley, JD will present at Grand Rounds with Pitt School of Medicine and Pitt Public Health on September 6th around Ensuring Patient-Centered Care in a Post-Roe World.
Congratulations Dr. Sonya Borrero for receiving the 2022 Investigator Excellence in Research Award for VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System! Each year, this award is presented to a VAPHS investigator “whose research has had an impact on the way we care for patients, conduct research, or educate the next generation of investigators”.
We are incredibly proud of your accomplishments and so happy to hear that you have received this award!
Our FemTech Collaborative proposed a set of guiding principles for building technology that proactively identifies and addresses critical gaps in health care for people socially and economically marginalized people who are capable of pregnancy.
You can read this publication here: https://www.jmir.org/2022/4/e36338
On September 15, 2021, CWHRI faculty collaborated on a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about the current state of women's and gender health. Focusing on developing and validating meaningful measures, building data infrastructure, and developing and testing innovative interventions, these comments create a foundation for how the NIH can move forward to advance gender and racial equity in the Office of Research on Women's Health.
Congratulations to Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi for receiving a perfect score on her 1st R21 submission to develop a measure for reproductive autonomy in health care settings, which speaks to the urgent need for this metric.
Faculty members Dr. Holly Thomas, Dr. Megan Hamm, Dr. Tamar Krishnamurti, Dr. Sonya Borrero, and Dr. Rebecca Thurston did a qualitative study of low libido in postmenopausal women.
The PA Maternal Mortality Report for 2021 was recently published. CONVERGE members who helped support this publication include Sonya Borrero, MD, MS, Dara Mendez, PhD, MPH, and Nancy Niemczyk, PhD, CNM.
Biden signs first bill in ‘Momnibus’ package, citing work by Dr. Deirdre Quinn, Dr. Lisa Callegari, and Dr. Sonya Borrero.
