About Us
The Texas Medical Center Women's Health Network (TMC WHN) is a 501(c)(3) organization of health professionals dedicated to advancing women's health through collaborations in education, research, and advocacy.
The TMC WHN Definition of Women's Health
The WHN model of women's health integrates traditional biomedical approaches with gender-specific experiences across the life span. Thus, women's health encompasses woman-centered, multidimensional approaches to diseases, disorders, and conditions that affect females, as well as social, economic, and cultural factors that impact the wellbeing of women and girls.
Our Vision
We envision the elimination of sex and gender disparities in health and health care.
Our Mission
We are health professionals dedicated to advancing women's health through interdisciplinary, inter-institutional collaborations in education, research, and advocacy.
Our Values
- Promoting access to health care, particularly for vulnerable populations;
- Eliminating health disparities related to race, ethnicity, age, sexual preference, and socioeconomic status as well as sex and gender;
- Leading in technology.
Our Goals
- Foster interdisciplinary collaborations in women's health research and education;
- Raise awareness among health professionals, policy-makers, and the community at large about key issues in women's health;
- Increase and enhance resources committed to women's health;
- Promote leadership and career opportunities in women's health; and
- Link local, regional, and national resources relevant to women's health.
Executive Board
- President
- Joslyn (Joey) Fisher, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Dept. Medicine
- Baylor College of Medicine/Ben Taub General Hospital
- President Elect
- Rachelle Nurse, RNC-WHCNP, MSN, MSHA
- Nursing Director, Women Infants & Pediatric Services
- Ben Taub General Hospital
- Secretary
- Ann J Robison, PhD
- Executive Director
- Montrose Counseling Center
- Treasurer
- Pam Lyle
- Chief Financial Officer
- The Rose
- Vice President, Education & Programming
- vacant
- Vice President of Information Technology
- Elizabeth Eaton, PhD
- Executive Director
- HAM-TMC Library
- Vice President, Public Affairs & Policy
- Ruth (Danielle) SoRelle
- Chief Science Editor, Public Affairs
- Baylor College of Medicine
- President Emeritus
- Kathryn E Peek, PhD
- Associate Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering
- UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Board of Directors
- Sandra Cesario, PhD
- Associate Professor & Doctoral Program Coordinator, College of Nursing
- Texas Woman's University
- Barbara Devetski
- Director of Development
- The Parish School
- Beverly J Gor, EdD, RD, LD, CDE
- Post-Doctoral Fellow
- UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
- Janis Hutchinson, PhD
- Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
- University of Houston
- Mary E Koch, MS, LMSW
- Health Services Industry Liaison
- The Work Source, Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments
- Karin Larson-Pollock, MD, MBA
- Vice President, Operations
- The Methodist Hospital
- Kim Lopez, DrPH
- Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Health Practive
- St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities
- Sheryl A McCurdy, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
- UT-Houston School of Public Health
- Lorna Haughton McNeill, PhD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Disparities Research
- UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Christina Mintner
- Director, School-Based Clinics & Mobile Program
- Harris County Hospital District
- Chair, TMC WHN Mentoring Committee
- Margaret Nosek, PhD
- Professor & Executive Director, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Andrea J Shelton, PhD
- Associate Professor, Dept. Health Sciences
- Texas Southern University
- Nora Shire
- Community Member
- Kathryn S Stream, PhD
- Senior Vice President
- Texas Medical Center
- Laura Sussman
- Program Manager, External Communications, Office of Public Affairs
- UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Diane Wardell, PhD, RNC
- Associate Professor, Dept. Integrative Nursing Care
- UT-Houston School of Nursing
- Janeana (Nina) White, MD
- Medical Director, K.I.N.D.E.Rx. Clinic
- The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston