Speaker Profile
M.D., Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; Director, Center for Fertility and Reproductive Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Biography
Dr. Pisarska earned her bachelor’s degree at State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and her medical degree at Upstate Medical Center in New York. She completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Pisarska was at Stanford University as a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Women’s Reproductive Health Research Career Center Scholar before joining the faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She has a comprehensive research program looking at adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with how the pregnancy/placenta implants, using specific genetics approaches to better understand how genetics and environmental influences, including fertility treatments, as well as fetal sex affect mother and infant, which can have long term health implications. Another area of her research focuses on oocyte development, ovarian function and dysfunction including ovarian failure and polycystic ovary syndrome.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2020 Silicon Valley
Session Synopsis: Researchers have long been recognizing the uniqueness of women’s health and the 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 with men. This session will include the effect of women’s health on the following topics:
- Preterm Birth & The Promise Of Biomarkers
- NIPT
- Carrier Screening And Moving To Whole Genome
- Endometriosis
- In Vitro Fertilization
- Menopause & Osteoporosis
- Breast Cancer
