M.D., MSc, FRCPC, AGAF, CMO & Head, Worldwide Medical & Safety, Pfizer Inc
Biography
As Chief Medical Officer of Pfizer, Dr. Habtezion leads Pfizers Worldwide Medical & Safety organization responsible for ensuring that patients, physicians, and regulatory agencies are provided with information on the safe and appropriate use of Pfizer medications.
She is a tenured and endowed Professor of Medicine, on a leave of absence from Stanford University who led translation research funded by multiple NIH, DOD, and foundation grants focused on understanding disease mechanisms in pancreatic and intestinal inflammatory diseases. She served as an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine, a faculty member in Stanfords Immunology Ph.D. program, Neuroscience Institute, Cancer Institute, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, interdisciplinary biosciences institute Bio-X, and faculty fellow at Stanfords ChEM-H.
She is the American Pancreas Association President, Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, an Allen Distinguished Investigator, elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 3 - January 26 9.00 A.M.-4.30 P.M.
Track Co-Chairs:
Linda Giudice, UCSF
Yoel Sadovsky, UPMC
Researchers have long been recognizing the uniqueness of women’s health and its 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 to men. This Track will focus on the following topics related to Women’s Health:
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: Marcia Stefanick, Stanford - Chronic Diseases in Women
- Marcia Stefanick, Stanford (Chronic Disease Prevention) - Marina Sirota, UCSF (Endometriosis) - Stem Cells, Preimplantation and Prenatal Genetics
Chair: Akash Kumar, MyOme, Inc. (Ploygenic risk score)
- Teresa Sparks, UCSF (Prenatal genetic diagnosis)
- Nathan Treff, Genomic Prediction (Reducing polygenic disease risk through embryo selection)
- Precision Health for Mothers and Babies
Chair: David Stevenson, U. of Stanford (Introduction: Towards Precision Health for Mothers and Babies)
- Aleks Rajkovic, UCSF (Genomics of Pregnancy Loss)
- Ivana Maric, Stanford (ML for Early Prediction)
- Nima Aghaeepour, Stanford (AI-Driven Prematurity Taxonomy)
- Precision Health for Mothers and Babies: Components of Pregnancy Health
Chair: Yoel Sadovsky, U. of Pittsburgh (Placental Health)
- Marina Sirota, UCSF (Leveraging Molecular and Clinical Data)
- Brice Gaudilliere, Stanford (Multiomic immune profiling) - Value of Early Risk Prediction, Screening & Digital Intervention in Pre-term birth Avoidance
Chair: Leslie Saltzman, Ovia Health
- Sydney Strickland, Labcorp - Reproductive Aging (PANEL)
Chair: Aleksandar Rajkovic, UCSF
- Diana Laird, UCSF
- Jennifer Garrison, Buck Institute
- Nikolina Lauc, GlycanAge
- Christian Kramme, Gameto - Achieving Equity in Precision Medicine
- Aida Habtezion, Pfizer - Sex Differences
- Noel Bairey Merz, Cedar Sinai (CV disease)
- Danit Ariel, Stanford (Transgender Health and Sex Differences)
- PMWC Showcase:
- Amrie Grammer, Ampel Bio Solutions
