The annual meeting of the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program will take place on December 11 from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) on the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. The conference will provide a forum for young investigators, their mentors, and other research scientists to meet, present their research, and engage in networking activities.

The BIRCWH meeting will include a panel discussion; abstract presentations and poster sessions by BIRCWH Scholars; mentoring sessions with representatives from NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices; and the Ruth L. Kirschstein Memorial Lecture. Judy Regensteiner, Ph.D., will deliver this year’s Kirschstein Lecture, titled “Strategic Career Development: Charting the Course.” 

Dr. Regensteiner researches diabetes and peripheral arterial disease, has served as an Investigator for the NIH Diabetes Prevention Program, is currently an Investigator for the NIH “Look Ahead” program to reduce adverse cardiovascular outcomes in people with diabetes, and currently serves as a Principal Investigator in the BIRCWH program. You can read more about Dr. Regensteiner here. 

The panel discussion, titled “Data-Driven Next Generation,” will explore new applications and innovations in data processing and how they will affect the future of women’s health. 

NIH’s BIRCWH program is a mentored career-development program connecting junior faculty, known as BIRCWH Scholars, to senior faculty with shared research interests in women's health and sex differences. Since the program was created in 2000, ORWH and BIRCWH program cosponsors have supported 44 institutions and trained 700 Scholars. You can read more about the BIRCWH program here. 

You can register for the December 11 meeting here.

You can also watch a videocast of the meeting, beginning at 8:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), Dec. 11, 2019.