Ronda S. Henry-Tillman, MD, FACS.

Dr Henry-Tillman was recently appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This committee assists the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and the NIH in addressing scientific, legal, and ethical issues affecting the health of the nation's women through biomedical and behavioral research and related career opportunities. The ORWH was established in 1990 by the NIH and statutorily mandated by Congress in 1993 as a mechanism for eliciting advice and recommendations on priority issues affecting women's health research. Advisory committee members are expected to provide guidance in such areas as refinement of the NIH's women's health research agenda, exploration of questions regarding gender difference in clinical drug trials, development of methodologies that enhance research on health needs of women, and monitoring the inclusion of women in clinical trials funded by the NIH. The director of the Office of Research on Women's Health is Dr Vivian W. Pinn, former president of the National Medical Association.