Improving Health across Generations: NICHD Promotes Healthy Lives for Women and Children

Date: 6/25/2013
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building

NICHD

 

The Friends of NICHD invite you to join them for a briefing on Improving Health across Generations: NICHD Promotes Healthy Lives for Women and Children.

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), conducts and supports research that improves the health of millions of Americans thanks to Congressional investment. You are invited to join them for a discussion about NICHD research that seeks to improve women's health by developing new contraceptive products, improve infant health by preventing preterm birth, and enhance the health and quality of life of aging women by partnering with private industry to improve treatment options for common age-related conditions.

Speakers:

  • Alan Guttmacher, M.D., Director, NICHD
  • Diana Blithe, Ph.D., Program Director, Contraceptive Discovery and Development Branch, NICHD
  • Vincenzo Berghella, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Cheryl Iglesia, M.D., Washington Hospital Center

 For more information and to RSVP, contact Scott Johnson at [email protected].

*This is a widely attended event. Breakfast will be provided.



Last Edited: 06/20/13 12:59 PM by Corina Miclea