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TOPIC: All Hearts & Minds: Exploring Connections between Cardiovascular and Sleep Health
Cost: FREE
Date: Tuesday, 16th July 2024
Time: 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Brooke Aggarwal, EdD, MS, FAHA & Irene O. Aninye, Ph.D
About the Presenter:
Name: Brooke Aggarwal, EdD, MS, FAHA
Dr. Brooke Aggarwal is a behavioral scientist, clinical health education specialist, and Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences in the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. The focus of her research program is sleep and cardiometabolic health among diverse populations of women at various life stages, including child-bearing years and the menopause transition, sex differences in sleep, and sleep health disparities. She completed a doctoral degree in health behavior from Columbia University, a master’s degree in exercise physiology from The George Washington University, and an NIH-funded post-doctoral research fellowship in preventive cardiology at Columbia University. Her work is supported by the Lewis Katz Cardiovascular Research Prize from Columbia University, the Progress at the Heart Award from Harmony Biosciences, as well as funding from the American Heart Association and NIH. Dr. Aggarwal was recently appointed to serve as a member of the inaugural “Sleep Health” committee for the American Heart Association. In addition to her research activities, she serves as teaching faculty for the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where she directs a course on nutrition counseling and medical nutrition management.
About the Presenter:
Name: Irene O. Aninye, Ph.D.
Irene O. Aninye, PhD, is the Chief Science Officer at the Society for Women’s Health Research, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving women’s health through science, policy, and education. She steers SWHR’s portfolio of science programs to increase awareness and investment in research on biological sex differences and health conditions and diseases that differently, disproportionately, or exclusively affect women. Prior to SWHR, Aninye led strategy teams for the American Association for the Advancement of Science to develop and evaluate STEM research and training programs for universities.
Dr. Aninye’s research background is in endocrinology and metabolism – investigating sex steroid hormones and their receptor-mediated actions in development, reproduction, and disease. Beyond the bench, she has dedicated her career to academic service and community engagement, facilitating scientific and leadership development opportunities for researchers, professionals, and students of all ages and career stages. With a passion to diversify the face of STEM and increase the equity and involvement of underrepresented groups in the sciences, Aninye mentors early career scholars, and has provided leadership on committees and advisory boards for organizations, such as the National Institutes of Health, Endocrine Society, Johns Hopkins, and University of Maryland Baltimore County. A Washington, DC, native, Irene earned her BS in Biochemistry as a Meyerhoff Scholar at UMBC and a PhD in Molecular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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