Semin Reprod Med 2006; 24(2): 067-068
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-939563
INTRODUCTION TO GUEST EDITOR

Copyright © 2006 by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.

Susan R. Davis, M.B.B.S., FRACP, Ph.D.

Bruce R. Carr1  Editor in Chief 
  • 1Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
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Publication History

Publication Date:
24 April 2006 (online)

The role of androgens in women is currently receiving great interest, and this issue of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine has successfully recruited a guest editor who has focused a major portion of her career in this area. Dr. Susan R. Davis has put together an up-to-date issue with a group of talented investigators and clinicians.

Susan R. Davis, M.B.B.S., FRACP, Ph.D., is the Professor of Women's Health, Monash University, and Director of the Monash University National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Women's Health, Victoria, Australia. She was Director of Research of the Jean Hailes Foundation from 1997 to 2004, and held the Jean Hailes Chair of Women's Health from 2003 to 2004.

Davis' research is focused on identifying modifiable factors that will improve the health and well-being of women in mid- and later life.

Professor Davis is the immediate past President of the Australasian Menopause Society and has recently served on guideline committees for the U.S. Endocrine Society and the North American Menopause Society. She has published more than 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including publications in the Lancet, JAMA, and New England Journal of Medicine.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Health and Medical Research Counsel Research Scholarship from 1986 to 1988, the Robert Greenblatt Prize for Research of the International Menopause Society 1993, the Glenn Aging Award of the U.S. Endocrine Society 2000, the GlaxoWellcome Diabetes Education Award 2000, the Barbara Gross Award of the Australasian Menopause Society 2002, and the North American Menopause Society/Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Androgen Research Award 2003.

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