School of Human Ecology Director’s Speaker Series

Pauline Maki, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Senior Research Director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender
University of Illinois at Chicago

“Controversies in Hormone Replacement and Cognition”

Dr. Pauline M. Maki is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Senior Research
Director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Dr. Maki received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and postdoctoral
training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the National Institute on
Aging. Her research over the last 17 years has focused on menopause, sex steroids,
cognition, and mood.

Dr. Maki is President of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) and a member of the
NAMS Board of Trustees. She has won a number of NIH awards for her research and service,
serves as a research and career mentor to many students and junior faculty, serves on
executive committees for several women’s health advisory boards, and is a frequent
international and national speaker on menopause and women’s cognitive health.