2023 Women's Health Innovation Fund Award Recipients

Fall 2023 WHIF Winners

The Women’s Health Innovation Fund provides resources to physicians and researchers in the early stages of launching important scientific research on women’s health topics. This support helps to advance the creative concepts and revolutionary studies that could lead to the next big breakthrough in medicine.

Congratulations to the 2023 winners!

  • Jourdan Triebwasser, MD, MA, Christopher Hong, MD, & Marianna Masteling, PhD: Preventing Pelvic Floor and Perineal Injuries During Childbirth: Understanding the Role of Heat
  • Michelle Moniz, MD, MSc: Insured But Not Protected: The Cost of Having a Baby in America
  • Elizabeth Langen, MD, & Joshua George, MD, MPH: Assessment of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Placental Cortisol Regulation
  • Luyun Chen, PhD, & Daniel Morgan, MD: A Novel Suction Cup Device for Uterine Manipulation
  • Melinda Davis, MD, & Stephanie Spehar, MD: Understanding Pregnancy-Associated Heart Failure in the Michigan Medicaid Population
  • Suzie As-Sanie, MD, MPH, & Lea Lazaris MD, MS: Narrative Medicine: A Novel Therapeutic Avenue for Chronic Pelvic Pain
  • Ruth Zielinski, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, Joanne Bailey, CNM, PhD, Nora Drummond, DNP, CNM: Patient Impact of Implementing a Trauma Informed Care Workshop for Obstetric Triage Staff at VVWH
  • Maria Muzik, MD, MSc & Cecilia Martinez-Torteya, PhD: The role of medical discrimination on racial health disparities in perinatal outcomes

A special congratulations to Drs. Triebwasser, Hong, & Masteling, who were selected to receive an additional $10,000 by attendees of the annual Women’s Health Leadership Board Meeting on November 30th, 2023.

View the 2022 Impact Report

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profile-jourdan-triebwasser-2023 Jourdan E Triebwasser, MD, MA

Clinical Assistant Professor

Chris Hong Christopher Hong, MD

Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Fellow

profile-michelle-moniz-2023 Michelle H Moniz, MD, MSc, FACOG

Associate Professor

Elizabeth S. Langen Elizabeth S Langen, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Joshua George Joshua George, MD, MPH

Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow

profile-daniel-morgan-2018 Daniel M Morgan, MD

Clinical Professor

Melina Davis Melinda B Davis, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Stephanie spear Stephanie Spehar, MD

General Cardiology Disease Fellowship, 1st Year Fellow

profile-sawsan-as-sanie-2015 Sawsan As-Sanie, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Evangelia Lazaris Evangelia Lazaris, MD, MS

Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Advanced Trainee

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