Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 3-7 , January 2009

Collaborating For Change: Creating a Women's Health Network

  • Joslyn W. Fisher, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Baylor College of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Joslyn W. Fisher, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine & Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, 1504 Taub Loop, 2 RM 81-001 A-F, Houston, TX 77030; Phone: 713-873-3560; Fax 713-798-6400.
    • ,
  • Kathryn E. Peek, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Received 15 October 2008 ,Revised 29 October 2008 ,Accepted 29 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.10.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 3-7 , January 2009

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