WHI Presentations
This page provides the videos, transcripts, slides and/or handouts for past WHI Annual Investigator Meetings. Please expand the year(s) of interest to view the relevant files. In addition, some years may include abstracts from accepted poster presentations.
Meetings/Presentations
Day 1
Day 1 Part 1 videoDay 1 Part 2 video
| Presentation | Speakers | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome/Overview | Marian Neuhouser, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Steering Committee Chair | |
| NHLBI address | Gina Wei, NHLBI | |
| Introduction of the Rebecca Jackson Lecturer | Janine Clayton, NIH | |
| The Evolving Future of Women's Health Research | Dr. Carolyn Mazure, Emerita Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University School of Medicine | |
| Plenary 1: Focus on Vision – Past, Ongoing, and New Studies | Session Chair: Amy Millen | |
| Plenary 1: Overview of WHI Vision and Age-related Eye Disease Data and Associated Ancillary Studies | Amy Millen, University at Buffalo | |
| Plenary 1: The Vision Impairment Project (VIP): Overview, Design and Available Data | Emily Gower, University of North Carolina | |
| Plenary 1: Association between vision impairment and physical and psychological functioning among older women | Luis Zambrana, University of North Carolina | |
| Plenary 1: Seeing Brain Aging Through the Eye: WHI Insights on Glaucoma Risk and Brain Aging | Thasarat Vajaranant, University of Illinois Chicago | |
| In memory of WHI Investigators Barbara Howard and Gloria Sarto | ||
| Presentation | Matthew Nudy, Penn State College of Medicine | |
| IGNITE | ||
| IGNITE: Wide-scale validation of epigenetic biomarkers of aging | Dennis Khodasevich, Stanford University & Cynthia Kusters, University of California LA | |
| IGNITE: Are Postmenopausal Women One Group? Discovery of Hidden Cardiovascular Phenotypes in the WHI Data Using Machine Learning | Shabitri Dasgupta, Dasnovate Women's Health Analytics | |
| IGNITE: Expanding Treatment-Aware Cancer Survivorship Research in WHI | Alexandra Binder, University of Hawaii | |
| IGNITE: Prolonged Grief and Mortality Risk Among Aging Adults: Evidence from the Women's Health Initiative | Christy A. Denckla, Harvard University | |
| Introduction of new SC Chair | Marian Neuhouser | |
| CCC updates | Garnet Anderson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | |
| Plenary 2: Opportunities within the Long Life Studies | Session Chair: Jean Wactawski-Wende, University at Buffalo | |
| Plenary 2: The Long Life Study and LLS2: Overview, Design, Participants | Holly Harris, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | |
| Plenary 2: Comparison of metabolic syndrome scores between older women with and without cancer history in the Women's Health Initiative Long Life Study 2 | Xiaochen Zhang, The Ohio State University | |
| Plenary 2: Association of CRP and cognitive decline among those with and without a history of cancer in the WHI LLS2 | Chloe Hery, The Ohio State University | |
| Plenary 3: Circulating hormones, menopause related symptoms, and cognition | Session Chair: Jennifer Bea | |
| Plenary 3: Introduction to the symposium: Hormone trajectory variability and circulating hormone influences on adipose, sleep, vasomotor symptoms, and cognition among postmenopausal women with and without hormone therapy use | Jennifer Bea, University of Arizona | |
| Plenary 3: Characterizing natural gonadotropin variability after menopause and links with adipose tissue in the WHI | Heather Ochs-Balcom, University at Buffalo | |
| Plenary 3: Circulating hormone metabolites associated with sleep and vasomotor symptoms in menopausal hormone therapy users and non-users | Kara Michels, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | |
| Plenary 3: Endogenous hormones, cognition, and risk of dementia in the WHI | Tracy Madsen, University of Vermont & Laura Harrington, Kaiser Permanente Health Research |
Day 2
Day 2 video| Presentation | Speakers | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Plenary 4: Leveraging multi-omics to identify novel mechanistic insights into chronic diseases of aging and exceptional longevity among WHI women | Session Chair: Heather Ochs-Balcom | |
| Plenary 4: Introduction | Heather Ochs-Balcom, University at Buffalo | |
| Plenary 4: Proteomics organ aging scores for cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in WHI-LLS women | Nora Franceschini, University of North Carolina | |
| Plenary 4: Epigenetic and proteomic biomarkers of MCI/dementia and cognitively healthy longevity in WHIMS | Aladdin Shadyab, University of California San Diego | |
| Plenary 4: Integrative analysis of cancer epigenomic data | Charles Breeze, National Cancer Institute | |
| Responsible AI with the WHI data resource | Steve Salerno, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | |
| Plenary 5: Blood-Based Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Pathology in WHIMS: Novel Insights into Risk Profiles, Cognitive Aging, and Healthy Longevity | Session Chair: Linda McEvoy, Kaiser Permanente Research Institute | |
| Plenary 5: Associations of Plasma ADRD Biomarkers with MCI/Dementia and Cognitively Healthy Longevity in WHIMS | Aladdin Shadyab, University of California San Diego | |
| Plenary 5: Cardiovascular Risk Factors and 15-Year Changes in Plasma Biomarkers of ADRD Pathology in WHIMS | Bowei Zhang, University of California San Diego | |
| Plenary 5: Association of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in WHIMS | Linda McEvoy, Kaiser Permanente Research Institute | |
| Closing remarks and Wrap-up/Adjourn | Electra Paskett, The Ohio State University, incoming WHI SC Chair |
