Nancy King Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN

The Rhetaugh Graves Dumas Professor of Nursing,

Research Scientist, Reproductive Sciences Program, School of Medicine

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

nreame@umich.edu

http://www.umich.edu/~rspwww/FACULTY/reame.html

http://www.nursing.umich.edu/faculty/reame_nancy.html

Nancy King Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN is the first holder of the Rhetaugh Graves Dumas Endowed Chair in Nursing Research at the University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Reame has been a faculty member in the School of Nursing since 1980 and a research scientist in the multidisciplinary Reproductive Sciences Program since 1990. From 1990 to 1995, she also served as the Director of the National Center for Infertility Research at Michigan, which was one of two such Centers funded by Congress as part of the first wave of funding targeting a greater focus on women's health. 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 normal female reproductive health. Dr. Reame is an active women's health advocate, serving on the federal government’s advisory committee to the NIH Women's Health Initiative, as advisor to the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, and scientific advisor for the recent book by the National Women's Health Network, "Taking Hormones and Women's Health: Choices, Risks and Benefits”. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the North American Menopause Society and is certified as a menopause educator.

Dr. Reame received her BSN from Michigan State University, and her MSN from Wayne State University, after two years as a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways. She received her PhD in Physiology from Wayne State University's School of Medicine where she conducted primate studies of one of the early "mini-pill" steroid contraceptives. She has completed postdoctoral training in reproductive endocrinology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and in 1997 was the American Academy of Nursing Scholar in Residence at the Institute of Medicine where she studied the bioethics of cloning and assisted reproduction. In 1998, she was inducted into the prestigious Institute of Medicine and elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001. She is most proud of her contribution as one of the co-authors of the #1 best seller in women’s health, “Our Bodies, Ourselves” which has sold more than 23 million copies world-wide and been translated into over ten languages. On Valentine’s Day, 2002, she appeared in a lead role of the University of Michigan’s performance of The Vagina Monologues to a sold-out audience of 4,000 to benefit efforts to stop violence against women.