Jill Goldstein

IN A NUTSHELL

Jill Goldstein will reveal findings from her research on “how the brain talks to the heart,” including how prenatal stress exposures and immune responses can play a role in determining sex-dependent disease onset later in life.

ABOUT JILL

Clinical neuroscientist Jill Goldstein is an expert on sex differences in the brain and their implications for understanding sex differences in psychiatric disorders and co-occurrence with medical disorders. She studies how adverse obstetric events impact the mother’s hormonal and immune responses in the womb and can affect health of the offspring across the lifespan. Jill is a Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Executive Director of the recently launched initiative on sex differences in disorders of the heart and brain called Women, Heart and Brain Global Initiative, a collaboration between MGH and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, partnering with the Women's Heart Alliance and WomenAgainstAlzheimer's.