Professional Education
Led by Director Lynn Westphal, MD, and Executive Director, Jim Batterson, Women's Health @ Stanford is actively committed to enhancing professional education, including these special training programs:
- BIRCWH - Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
- WRHR - Women's Reproductive Health Research
- VPUE - Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
- WHSC - Women's Health Scholarly Concentration
- Continuing Medical Education Symposia
- The Littlefield Women's Health Medical Forum
Women’s Health strives constantly to expand and improve on professional education in women’s health. We seek to aid in the training of professionals who will do the necessary gender-based research towards providing the preventive care and therapies needed by women in our society. A new paradigm for understanding, preventing, and treating the health problems of women can be created by training physician-researchers across disciplines and
across the life span.
Women's Health is taking an active role in facilitating the training of scientists who can pursue both basic and clinical research into disease processes in women. It is anticipated that these trainees will become independent investigators in basic, translational, and clinical research relevant to women’s health, who will continue to focus their careers on expanding knowledge of health in women across the life span.
