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The Center for Women's Health Research was founded by three visionary women who are committed deeply to changing the future of women's health through research. They have distinguished careers and are longtime colleagues and collaborators in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado. They are: Judith Regensteiner, PhD; JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, and Lorna G. Moore, PhD.
 Judith Regensteiner, PhD
Director of the Center for Women's Health Research
Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Internal Medicine and Cardiology
Dr. Regensteiner's research expertise in women's health is in the cardiovascular effects of diabetes. She also has extensive expertise in vascular diseases, including peripheral arterial disease. She has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of large grants to assess exercise capacity and gender differences in type 2 diabetes and the effects of exercise training in people with type 2 diabetes and peripheral arterial disease. She has been an Investigator for the National Institutes of Diabetes Prevention Program and is an Investigator for the National Institutes of Health's "Look Ahead" program to reduce cardiovascular outcomes in people with diabetes. Her work is funded by the American Diabetes Association and the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Regensteiner has authored more than 100 research publications in her areas of expertise and has received many honors, including the Department of Medicine's Ph.D. Teaching and Research Award, the CU System-wide Elizabeth Gee Memorial Lectureship Award, and the American Federation for Medical Research's Henry Christian Award for Outstanding Cardiovascular Research. She is a member of the National Institutes of Health Think Tank for Cardiovascular Research in Women and of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee, formed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. She has given medical grand rounds at Philadelphia's Drexel University on women and vascular disease, and has presented her research findings at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Stanford University, University of Minnesota, University of Basel in Switzerland, the Quebec International Symposium on Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, the Transatlantic Vascular Medicine meetings, the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, and in Kuopio, Finland, at the Conference for Physical Activity in Conjunction with Pharmacological Therapy for Chronic Vascular Diseases.
 JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD
Associate Director of the Center for Women's Health Research
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology
Director of Heart Transplant
Dr. Lindenfeld has been recognized as one of the top 4,200 physicians in the United States by the Castle Connolly Guide to America's Top Doctors and as one of Denver's top physicians by 5280 Magazine. Her research expertise includes heart failure in women, use of beta-blockers in heart failure, mechanisms of renal dysfunction after heart transplantation, and mechanisms of ventricular dysfunction in diabetes. From 1995-2003, Dr. Lindenfeld was a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Cardio-Renal Advisory Panel. She is a member of the National Institutes of Health Think Tank for Cardiovascular Research in Women. Dr. Lindenfeld is chair of the Heart Failure Society of America's Guidelines Committee and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of American College of Cardiology and Journal of Heart Failure. She has published more than 80 original papers, chapters, and reviews.
Dr. Lindenfeld's many honors include the Outstanding Cardiology Faculty Award, Housestaff Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Teaching Recognition Award, the Students' Teaching Award, the Medical Staff President's Award, and, on several occasions, the Medical Student Council's Excellence in Teaching Award. She is the recipient of the coveted Gold-Headed Cane Award, given to the outstanding clinician in the School of Medicine; only eight people have been awarded that distinction in the school's 120-year history.
 Lorna G. Moore, PhD
Professor of Surgery / Emergency Medicine
Dr. Moore is a pioneer in research on how humans adapt to high altitude, with a focus on ways women adjust to the physiological demands of pregnancy while living at high altitude and the impact on maternal and infant health. She has conducted research in Colorado, Peru, Bolivia, and Tibet on women and men, ranging from infancy to old age. Dr. Moore has served as President of the Human Biology Association, Vice President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, member of the National Institutes of Health's Human Embryology and Development Study Section, member of the National Science Foundation's Physical Anthropology Panel, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. In 2003-04, she was an American Council on Education Presidential Fellow. She has published more than 200 articles in the fields of medical anthropology, cell biology, human genetics, human physiology, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and public health.
Dr. Moore's honors include a National Institutes of Health Career Development Award, the UC Denver Chancellor's Research Scholar Award, and the CU System-wide Elizabeth Gee Memorial Lectureship Award.
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