By the time Guillermina Girardi earned her PhD from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina in 1994, she never got the opportunity to study abroad. So when the chance came up to do a two-year training program at the Hospital for Special Surgery, an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, in December of 2000, she jumped on it. She ultimately worked as an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Cornell studying pregnancy complications. "It was heartbreaking because there's nothing you can do for [women]." But as she discusses in Safeguarding the Foreigner Within, she has recently unearthed a possible solution: a drug previously marketed for cardiovascular disease. "These women deserve some hope."
Les Costello has spent most of his academic career at the University of Maryland. Now a professor of physiology and endocrinology at the Dental School in Baltimore, he has been conducting research on ...
