

Address:
617 W 168 St. Rm. GB330
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-6761
Fax: 212-305-2139
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| Education and Training | |
| Post-Doctoral Fellowship | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| PhD | Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan |
| MSN | Wayne State University |
Affiliations
Columbia University School
of Nursing
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Research Activities:
Reproductive endocrinology, menstrual cycle, menopause, infertility
Gender and health
Bioethics of assisted reproduction
Her current program of research is focused on the neuroendocrinology of the menstrual cycle, PMS, and menopause with the aim of clarifying the factors associated with women's reproductive health. A member of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Reame is an active women's health advocate, serving on the advisory committee to the NIH Women's Health Initiative, and as advisor to the Boston Women's Health Book Collective. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the North American Menopause Society and is certified as a menopause clinician.
Visit the Doctor of Nursing Science Program web site.
Read the interview by Nurses World Magazine with Dr. Reame entitled "Menopause Myths: An interview with Nancy Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN"
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Selected Publications
1. Kalfoglou AL, Doksum T, Bernhardt B, Geller G, LeRoy L, Mathews DJ, Evans JH, Doukas
DJ, Reame N, Scott J, Hudson KOpinions about new reproductive genetic technologies:
hopes and fears for our genetic future. Fertil
Steril. 2005 Jun;83(6):1612-21.
2. Kupersmith J, Sung N, Genel M, Slavkin H, Califf R, Bonow R, Sherwood L, Reame N, Catanese V, Baase C, Feussner J, Dobs A, Tilson H, Reece EA. Creating a new structure for research on health care effectiveness. J Investig Med. 2005 Mar;53(2):67-72.
3. N Reame, Y Smith, JK Zubieta. A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Study of Opioid Binding Acitivity and LH Secretion as a Model for Testing Herbal Estrogen-like Mimics on CNS Function. P-210. Fertil Steril 2005; 84 (Suppl 1): S228.
4. Lukacs J, Booth S, Kleerkoper M, Ansbacher, Rock C, and Reame, NE. Differential associations for menopause and age in measures of vitamin K, osteocalcin and bone density. Menopause, 13 (5): 799-808, 2006.
5. Kim HW, Kwon MK, Kim NS and Reame NE. Intake of Dietary Soy Isoflavones in Relation to Perimenstrual Symptoms of Korean Women Living in the US. Nursing and Health Science 8 (2):108-113, 2006
6. Reame N.Neuroendocrine Regulation of the Perimenopause Transition. In: Treatment of the Postmenopausal Woman. R. Lobo, editor. Third edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Ch 9. pp 127-47, 2007.
7. Reame N, Lukacs J, Olton P, Ansbacher R, Padmanabhan V. Differential effects of aging on activin A and its binding protein, follistatin, across the menopause transition. Fertil Steril 2007; 88:1003-05.
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Honors and Awards
| 1996-1997 | American Academy of Nursing Distinguished Nurse Scholar, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC |
| 3/13/1997 | Testimony for the American Society of Reproductive Medicine to the President’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission |
| 1997 | Induction to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences |
| 1998 | Commencement speaker, UCLA School of Nursing |
| 1999 | University of Michigan “Road Scholar” Faculty (inaugural year) |
| Senior Fellow, University of Michigan Society of Fellows | |
| Organon Best Abstract Prize - Infertility Nurses' Meeting, Montreal , Canada | |
| 2001 | Sr. Rosalie Klein Nursing Professorship Lecture, Marquette University |
| Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Board of Trustees, North American Menopause Society | |
| Nov 3, 2002 | University of Michigan Inaugural Life Sciences Public Lecture Series. Sex in the 21 st Century: past, present and future of assisted reproduction . |
| Member, Clinical Research Roundtable, Institute of Medicine (only nurse member) | |
| 2003- 2004 | Member, The National Academies Committee on Clinical Research Workforce Diversity Needs for 2010 |
| 2005 | Millie Award , Michigan Chapter of the National Women’s Political Caucus for the video project “Oral Herstories of the Feminist Movement in Michigan ”. N Reame , PI with Joan Israel on behalf of the Veteran Feminists of Michigan organization. |
| 2005 | Golden Lamp Award, Center for Nursing Advocacy “Best Media Depictions of Nursing” |
| 2007 | 8th Annual Trudy Bush Lectureship. Institute for Women's Health, Virginia Commonwealth University |
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