Natalie Rasgon - F1000 Former Member (17 March 2006 to 25 January 2011)
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Academic positions:- Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Director of the Women's Wellness Program
- Director of the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital
Any industry positions (last five years):
Dr Rasgon has acted as a consultant to Abbott Laboratories, Neuroscience Division, 2002-2003 and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, 2003-2003. She has also participated in speakers' bureaus for Abbott Laboratories, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, Forest Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Pfizer and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals.
Research interests:
Dr Rasgon has been involved in longitudinal placebo-controlled neuroendocrine studies for nearly two decades, and she has been involved in neuroendocrine and brain imaging studies of estrogen effects on depressed menopausal women for the last eight years. Research in the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program, which Dr Rasgon founded, focuses on the interaction between reproductive hormones and brain function. Research efforts of the lab are concentrated in two areas: (1) the reproductive endocrine status of women with affective disorders, and (2) the neurobiology of the effects of hormone therapy in aging women.
Any other information:
Society memberships:
- AcademicKeys Who's Who in Medical Sciences Education, 2005 to present
- Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2004 to present
- Northern California Psychiatric Society, 2002 to present
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001 to present
- North American Menopause Society, 2001 to present
- International Association on Women's Mental Health, 2001 to present
- Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2001 to present
- Society of Neuroscience, 1999 to present
- International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, 1997 to present
- New York Academy of Sciences, 1994 to present
- International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1994 to present
- American Medical Association, 1993 to present
- American Psychiatric Association, 1993 to present
National and International Committees:
- The Science Advisory Board, May 2006
- NIMH Services Research Review Committee, June 2005
- NIH eRA Commons Special Emphasis Panel and Scientific Review Group, May 2005
- Committee Member, National Institute on Aging Workshop, "Bench to Bedside: Estrogen as a Case Study," 2004 to present
- Council of Healthcare Advisors, Gerson Lehrman Group, 2004 to present
- Planning Committee on Management of Menopause-Related Symptoms, National Institutes of Health, 2004
- Committee on Endocrine, Metabolic and Reproductive Issues in Neurology and Psychiatry, The Endocrine Society, 2004
Grant reviewer for:
- Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, 2005 to present
- Ad Hoc Reviewer for Alzheimer's Assocation, 1999 to present
- Ad Hoc Reviewer for NIMH, Intramural Branch, 1999 to present
Reviewer for numerous scientific journals