Xvii coloquio internacional antropologia fisica juan comas

Lynnette Leidy Sievert, BSN, PhD

Department of Anthropology
Machmer Hall, 240 Hicks Way
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9278
leidy@anthro.umass.edu

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

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(2017) Gerber LM, Sievert LL, Schwartz JE. Hot flashes and midlife symptoms in relation to levels of salivary cortisol. Maturitas 96:26-32.

(2017) Huicochea Gómez L, Sievert LL, Cahuich Campos D, Brown DE. An investigation of life circumstances associated with the experience of hot flashes in Campeche, Mexico. Menopause. 24(1):52-63.

(2016) Zsakai A, Karkus Z, Utczas K, Biri B, Sievert LL, Bodzsar EB. Body fatness and endogenous sex hormones in the menopausal transition Maturitas 87:18-26.

(2016) Hart V, Sturgeon S, Reich N, Sievert LL, Crawford S, Gold E, Avis N, Reeves KW.

(2014) Sievert LL. Menopause across cultures: clinical considerations. NAMS Practice Pearl. Menopause 21(4):421-423.

(2013) Morrison LA, Brown DE, Sievert LL, Reza A, Rahberg N, Mills P, Goodloe A. Voices from the Hilo Women’s Health Study: talking story about menopause. Health Care for Women International 00:1–20. DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2013.829067.

(2013) Sharmeen T, Sievert LL, Begum K, Chowdhury O, Muttukrishna S, Bentley GR. Symptoms at midlife, family structure, and household workloads in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Anthropological Review 76(2):199-216.

(2013) Murphy L, Sievert LL, Begum K, Sharmeen T, Chowdhury O, Muttukrishna S, Bentley GR.

(2011) Melby MK, Sievert LL, Anderson D, Obermeyer CM. Overview of methods used in cross- cultural comparisons of menopausal symptoms and their determinants: Guidelines for strength- ening the reporting of menopause and aging (STROMA) Studies. Maturitas, 70:99-109.

(2011) Sievert LL, Anderson D, Melby MK, Obermeyer CM. Methods used in cross-cultural comparisons of somatic symptoms and their determinants. Maturitas, 70:127-134.

(2011) Brown DE, Sievert LL, Morrison LA, Rahberg N, Reza A. Relationship between hot flashes and ambulatory blood pressure: The Hilo Women’s Health Study. Psychosomatic Medicine 73(2):166-72.

(2011) Fortner RT, Pekow PS, Whitcomb BW, Sievert LL, Markenson G, Chasan-Taber L. Physical activity and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among Hispanic women. Med Sci Sports Exerc 43(4):639-46
(2010) Sievert LL, Reza A, Mills P, Morrison L, Rahberg N, Goodloe A, Sutherland M, Brown DE.

(2008) Sievert LL, Saliba M, Reher D, Sahel A, Hoyer D, Deeb M, Obermeyer CM. The medical management of menopause: A four-country comparison of care in urban areas. Maturitas 59:7-21.

(2008) Houghton LC, Sharmeen T, Begum K, Chowdhury OA, Sievert LL, Muttukrishna S, Bentley GR, Chatterton RT. Salivary and serum sampling of progesterone and oestradiol among Bangladeshi and British women. Society, Biology and Human Affairs 73(1&2):
(2007) Sievert LL, Morrison LA, Reza AM, Brown DE, Kalua E, Tefft HAT. Age-related differences in health complaints: The Hilo Women’s Health Study. Women and Health, 45(3):31-51.

(2007) Sievert LL. Variation in sweating patterns: implications for studies of hot flashes through skin conductance. Menopause, 14(4):742-751.

(2007) Obermeyer CM, Price K, Schulein M, Sievert LL, Anderton D. Medication use and gender in western Massachusetts: results of a household survey. Health Care for Women International, 28:593-613.

(2004) Obermeyer CM, Schulein M, Hardon A, Sievert LL, Price K, Santiago AC, Lazcano O, Kirumira EK, Neuman M. Gender and medication use: an exploratory, multi-site study.

Women and Health. 39(4):57-73.

Estudios de Antropología Biológica. 11:91-112.

(2003) Sievert LL, Espinosa-Hernandez G. Attitudes toward menopause in relation to symptom experience in Puebla, Mexico. Women and Health, 38(2):93-106.

(2003) Hautaniemi SI, Leidy Sievert L. Risk factors for hysterectomy among Mexican American women in the US Southwest. Am J Human Biology, 15:38-47.

(2002) Sievert LL, Freedman RR, Zarain Garcia J, Foster JL, Romano MC, Longcope C, Franz C.

(2000) Leidy L, Canali C, Callahan W. The medicalization of menopause: implications for recruitment of study participants. Menopause, 7(3):193-199.

(1999) Leidy, L. The effect of exclusion: rates of hysterectomy and comparisons of age at natural menopause. Am J Human Biology, 11(5):687-693.

(1996) Leidy, L. The timing of menopause in relation to body size and weight change. Human Biology, 68(6):997-1012.

(1996) Leidy, L. Symptoms of menopause in relation to the timing of reproductive events and past menstrual experience. Am J Human Biology, 8(6):761-769.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

(2017) Sievert LL. Thyroid disorders at midlife: an evolutionary perspective. In: Jasienska G, Sherry DS, Holmes DJ (Eds.) The Arc of Life: Evolution and Health Across the Life Course. Springer Press, pp.121-138.

(2016) Sievert LL and Brown DE. Symptoms at menopause: risk factors for chronic health concerns.

In: Vidovic M (Ed.) Anthropology and Public Health. Ljubljana, Slovenia: National Institute of Public Health. 2016:181-194.

(2001) Leidy Sievert, L. Aging and reproductive senescence. In: Ellison, P. (Ed.) Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution. Hawthorne, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, pp.267-292.

(1999) Leidy, L. Menopause in evolutionary perspective. In: Trevathan WR, Smith EO, McKenna JJ. (Eds.) Evolutionary Medicine, Oxford University Press, pp.407-427.

(2017) Sievert, L. Setting the second stage: the evolution of menopause & post-reproductive life. In: nces Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London (online at Made available 3/2/17.

(2017) Sievert LL. Why don’t men have menopause? Invited blog post for the North American Menopause Society. about -it. Posted 3/8/

(2015) Gass MLS, Maki PM, Shifren JL, Schnatz PF, Kaunitz AM, Shapiro M, Sievert LL. NAMS supports judicious use of systemic hormone therapy for women aged 65 years and older [Editorial]. Menopause 22(7):685-686.

(2014) Sievert LL. Advantages, limitations, and opportunities in the use of national databases. [Invited Editorial] Menopause, 21(3):209-210.

(2012) Sievert LL. Choosing the gold standard: subjective report vs. physiological measure. Insights Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK, 5(3), e1-18.

(2012) Sievert LL. Cross-cultural comparisons: methodological concerns [Invited Editorial] Menopause, 19(12):1289-1290.

(2000) Leidy, L. Medicine and menopause: Why it’s becoming harder to study human biology. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 47(8), October 20:B15.

(1998) Leidy, L. Human biology, biomedicine, and the study of menopause. Association for Anthropology and Gerontology Newsletter, 20 (2):2-4
(1998) Leidy, L. Menopause. In: Ulifaszek SJ, Johnston FE, Preece MA (eds.) Cambridge Encyclopedia of Growth and Development, Cambridge University Press, pp.422-4.

(2004) Physiology of the Graafian Follicle and Ovulation, by R.H.F. Hunter. Am J Human Biology, 16(2):172-173.

(2003) Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection, by Rose E. Frisch. Human Biology, 75(6):951-952.

(1995) Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology by John H. Relethford, Annals of Human Biology, 22(5):467.

(1995) A Guide to Reproduction: Social Issues and Human Concerns by Irina Pollard, Am J Human Biology, 7(4):547-48.

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(In progress) Sievert LL, Jaffe N. Age at menopause: review. Invited for Women’s Midlife Health.

(2017) DE Brown, A Potochney, R Namnama, N Garcia, H McKeague, A Ching, LL Sievert.

Relation between hot flash experience and brown adipose tissue measured by infrared thermography in a pilot study of women at mid-life. Am J Human Bio 29(2):e22974, P56.

(2016) LM Gerber, LL Sievert, AE Giambrone,M Verjee. Obesity and the risk of hot flashes in midlife Arab women living in Qatar. Am J Human Bio 28(2):278.

(2015) LL Sievert, L Huicochea Gomez, D Cahuich Campos, DE Brown. Objective and subjective hot flashes in the city of Campeche, Mexico. Menopause, 22(12):1372.

(2013) LL Sievert, A Masley. Are menopausal hot flashes an evolutionary byproduct of post- partum “warming”? Menopause, 20(12):1319.

(2013) LL Sievert, L Huicochea Gomez, DE Brown, P Ruiz Becerra. The characterization of hot flashes among women in Campeche, Mexico. Am J Human Biology,25(2):274-275.

(2012) DE Brown, LL Sievert, LA Morrison. Japanese-Americans show increased frequency of diary reports of negative moods compared to other ethnic groups during the peri-menopause: the Hilo Women’s Health Study. Am J Physical Anthro, suppl 54:107.

(2011) LL Sievert, E Bertone-Johnson. Menstrual experience and midlife symptoms in Puebla, Mexico. Menopause, 18(12):1370.

(2011) L Murphy, LL Sievert, K Begum, T Sharmeen O Chowdhury, S Muttukrishna, GR Bentley.

Younger age at menopause among middle class Bangladeshi women exposed to cyclones in early life. Am J Human Bio, 23(2):268-269.

(2010) LL Sievert, K Begum, T Sharmeen, L Murphy, S Muttukrishna, GR Bentley. Are cross- population differences in hot flash frequency due to variation in women’s awareness of hot flashes? Am J Physical Anthro suppl 50:217.

(2010) DE Brown, LL Sievert, LA Morrison, AM Reza. Japanese-Americans show enhanced blood pressure responsiveness compared to European Americans when reporting negative moods: The Hilo Women’s Health Study. Am J Physical Anthro suppl 50:73.

(2009) G Bentley, K Begum, L Sievert, T Sharmeen, L Murphy, O Chowdhury, M. Booth, S. Muttukrishna. Effect of migration on ovarian reserve among Bangladeshi migrants to UK.

Maturitas, 63 (suppl.1): S81.

Changing environments, developmental plasticity and life history traits. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 48:89.

(2009) LA Morrison, LL Sievert, DE Brown, AM Reza, N Rahberg, AN Goodloe. A quantitative and

Menopause 15(6):1213.

(2008) LL Sievert, T Sharmeen, K Begum, O Chowdhury, S Muttukrishna, G Bentley. Subjective and objective hot flash experience in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Am J Human Biology,20(2):233.

Menopause, 14(6):1102.

(2006) LL Sievert, DE Brown, LA Morrison, AM Reza. Age at menopause in Hilo, Hawaii: The Hilo Women’s Health Study. Menopause, 13(6):1013.

(2005) LL Sievert, J Zarain. The use of skin conductance and body diagrams to study hot flashes in Puebla, Mexico Am J Human Biology, 17(2):255-256.

(2005) C DuBois, K Kennedy, LL Sievert, GR Bentley. Variation in ovulatory signals between women who either do or do not use natural fertility methods. Am J Human Biology, 17(2):239.

(2004) LL Sievert, MC Gonzalez, AM Hurtado, E Gonzalez de Troche. Peri-menopausal FSH and estradiol levels among the Maká of Paraguay. Menopause, 11(6):684.

(2004) LL Sievert and C DuBois. Validating subjective signals of ovulation. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 38:181-182.

(2002) L Leidy Sievert, E Flanagan, GD James. Ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in relation to hot flash experience among women of menopausal age. Am J Human Biology, 14:121.

(2002) LL Sievert, SI Hautaniemi Age at menopause in Puebla, Mexico: methodological considerations. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 34:141.

(2000) LE Leidy, RR Freedman, J Zarain Garcia, JL Foster. Measurement of perimenopausal hot flashes in Puebla, Mexico. Am J Human Biology, 12(2):280.

(1999) L Leidy, K Pearce. Age at menopause in relation to milk consumption: a lifespan perspective. Menopause, 6(4):343.

(1998) LE Leidy. Accessory eggs, follicular atresia, and the evolution of human menopause. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 26:148-9.

(1998) LR Godfrey, LE Leidy, and MR Sutherland. Measuring "rates" of follicular atresia: a cautionary tale. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 26:101.

(1996) LE Leidy. Considering the effect of marriage on variation in age at menopause. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 22:147.

(1995) LE Leidy. Correlation in ages at menarche and menopause among Cuban-American and Puerto Rican women. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 20:132-133.

(1992) LE Leidy. Terminal abstinence in Cameroon and Nigeria. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 14:107. (1991) LE Leidy. The timing of menopause in relation to weight change: a lifespan perspective. Am J Phys Anthro, suppl 12:112-113.

(1991) LE Leidy. Age at menopause and severity of menopausal symptoms in relation to body size, exercise, and smoking habits. Am J Human Biology, 3(1):65-66.

(2017) Measurement of hot flashes: cross-cultural research highlights the challenges. Invited presentation for a Workshop on Menopause, Health and Culture, London School of Economics, 5/24/17.

(2017) Is it Hot in Here? Thinking About the Evolution of Menopause. Invited presentation for the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Science Café, Amherst, MA. Community lecture, 3/9/17. (2017) Variation in age at menopause and symptom experience at midlife. Invited presentation for the Indian Science Congress, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India, 1/4/17.

(2016) Women’s health at midlife from the perspective of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). Invited lecture for the Biomedical Anthropology Speaker Series, Binghamton University, 3/14/16.

(2016) Women’s health at midlife: three perspectives. Invited lecture for the Developmental Psychology Colloquium, UMass Amherst, 3/10/16.

(2014) Perspectivas para el estudio de la menopausia. Invited 6-hour seminar, Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 9/9/14.

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(2014) Variation in the menopausal transition: Hawaii, Mexico, and Bangladesh. Invited for session: Comparative advantage: Global perspectives on human biology and health (Thomas McDade and William Leonard). AAAS, Chicago, 2/16/14.

(2013) L Huicochea Gomez, D Cahuich Campos, LL Sievert, DE Brown. Factores socioculturales y experiencias de vida de mujeres que viven bochornos fisiológicos en Campeche México. XVII Coloquio Internacional de Antropologia Fisica Juan Comas, Colima, Mexico, 11/15/2013.

(2012) Percepción subjectiva y medidas objectivas de los bochornos: consideraciones metodológicas.

Invited presentation for the XX Congress of the Asociación Mexicana para el Estudio del Climaterio (AMEC), 10/19/21.

(2012) Bridging two literatures: the evolution of religion and women’s health. Work-in-progress seminar for the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK 5/14/12.

(2012) How to explain post-reproductive life without grandmothers. Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK, 5/8/12.

(2011) La menopausia: los sintomas en el contexto de clima, dieta, religion, y otros factores culturales. Invited presentation for El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Campeche, Mexico, 7/1/11.

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(2010) Symptom experience at menopause as an aspect of human variation. Keynote presentation for the European Anthropological Association, 8/31/10.

(2010) A migration study of hormone levels and symptom frequencies at midlife: Bangladeshi women in London and Bangladesh. Invited presentation for the Comparative Medicine Seminar Series, Wake Forest University Primate Center, 5/27/10.

(2008) Sievert LL, DuBois Z, Murphy L, Bentley GR, Muttukrishna S, Sharmeen T, Begum K,
Chowdhury O, Zarain J. An ecological approach to the study of hot flashes among women at midlife. Northeast Anthropological Association, UMass Amherst, 3/8/08
(2007) Andropause and menopause. Invited presentation for the Parkes Foundation Conference on Reproduction and Adaptation, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK, 9/18/07
(2007) Biology, climate, and culture: an ecological approach to the study of menopausal complaints.

Keynote presentation for the German Anthropological Society, Freiburg, Germany, 9/12/07 (2007) Evolutionary Medicine and menstrual suppressing oral contraceptives. Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Vancouver, Canada, 6/7-9/07
(2007) Monitoring hot flashes in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Invited presentation for the Workshop on Menopause and Aging in Spain and Morocco: Challenges and Possibilities for Future Research. Madrid, Spain, 5/11/07.

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series, University College London, 2/22/05.

(2004) LL Sievert and MC Gonzalez. La experiencia de la menopausia en Asunción, Paraguay. VII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología Biológica “Adelaida de Díaz Ungría”, Caracas, Venezuela, 10/04.

(2004) Menopausal hot flashes: climate, biology, and cultural context. Invited presentation for the Anthropology Seminar Series, Yale University, 3/4/04.

(2003) LL Sievert and EK Flanagan. La relación entre la frecuencia de bochornos o calores en mujeres climatéricas con la latitud, altura sobre el nivel del mar y la temperatura media anual. Coloquio Internacional de Antropologia Fisica “Juan Comas”, Tlaxcala, Mexico 11/03.

(2002) Recent Work and Future Directions in Studies of Reproductive Aging. Invited presentation for Changing International Developments and Perspectives in Human Biology: Research and Programmatic Issues, Symposium/Workshop, International Assoc. of Human Biology, Buffalo, NY, 4/12/02.

(2002) Hot flashes and bone pain: The assessment of menopausal symptoms in Puebla, Mexico.

(2001) Peri-menopausal hot flashes in Puebla, Mexico. Invited presentation for the Ecology of

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(1999) Can we leave medicine out of this? Human biology and the study of menopause. Invited presentation for the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 11/19/99.

(1999) Discussant for session entitled The Medicalization of Menopause: Professional and Lay Models, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 11/20/99.

(1997) Los bochornos de la menopausia. Presented at the IX Coloquio Internacional de Antropologia Fisica, Juan Comas. Queretaro, Mexico. 11/6/97.

(1997) Variation in age and experience at menopause. Invited as part of a speaker series. New York Chiropractic College, Seneca Falls, NY, 2/26/97.

(1993) Changing fears: mothers' psychosis, daughters' osteoporosis. Presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society, San Diego, 9/93.

(1993) The pediatric challenge of the 90's: caring across cultures. Invited by the Center for Women and Children's Services at St. Peter's Hospital, March 24, 1993
(1992) Age at menopause in relation to weight change: altering the rate of atresia. Presented at the Meeting of the North American Menopause Society, 9/92.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst:

2017 Search Committee for the Darwin Postdoc, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 2015-2016 Interim co-Director, Center for Research on Families
2015 University Research IT Strategic Planning Committee
2013 University Research Strategic Planning Committee
2013 Sub-Committee URSPC, Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity
2012-2013 Instructional Innovation Advisory Council, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2011-2013 University Doctoral Program Review Committee
2011-present University IRB Committee (Chair 2013 - present)
2010-2015
Research Council, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2009-2011 Steering Committee, Center for Research and Education in Women’s Health
2008-2010 Chair, Executive Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
2008-2009 Research Library Council Task Force on Implications & Impacts of Digital Scholarship summer 2008 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology
2007-2013 Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Anthropology
2007-2017 Steering Committee, Center for Research on Families
2005-2007 Executive Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
2005-2006 Chair, University Research Policy Committee
2004-2010 University Research Council
2004-2005 Search Committee for the Director of University Libraries
2003-2004 Research Council, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
2002-2006 Steering Committee, Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 2001-2006 Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Anthropology
2000-2001 Executive Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
1998-2002 Seminar Committee, Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 1997-2004 Steering Committee, Center for Research and Education in Women's Health
1996-2003 Coordinator, Honors Program, Department of Anthropology

Reproduction, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Journal of the American Aging

Association, Journal of Biosocial Science, Physiology and Behavior, PLOS ONE, Maturitas, Psychophysiology, Social Science and Medicine, Women and Health, Yearbook of Physical

Campeche, Mexico
2012-2016. Supervising and participating in collection of data to assess objective and subjective hot flash experience among rural and urban Mayan women compared with rural and urban Mestizo women in the state and city of Campeche. In collaboration with Laura Huicochea, Diana Cahuich, and Daniel E. Brown.

London, UK and Sylhet, Bangladesh
2006-2009. Supervised collection of data to determine variation in age at menopause, symptom experience, and hormone levels among Bangladeshi immigrants in London, their white London neighbors, and Bangladeshis living in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Fieldwork in Bangladesh, Spring, 2007. In collaboration with Gillian Bentley and Shanthi Muttukrishna.

1995-2000. Six summers, 2 January terms. Puebla, Mexico. Age at menopause, symptom experience, and treatment choices. Collaborative work with two menopause clinics and University of the Americas, Puebla. Clinical measurement of hot flashes using sternal skin conductance.

Asunción and Mbaracayu, Paraguay.

summer 2001. Pilot study of ambulatory blood pressure and menopausal symptoms. Collaborative work with Gary James, Binghamton University.

1995-2001. Western Massachusetts. Age and symptom experience at menopause. Anthropometric measures, urine testing for LH, survey data collected from women ages 40-60. Breast Health Project participants, exercise groups, school districts, community groups, shopping mall.

summer, 1985 Investigated grandparenting styles and care of the elderly.

Harrisburg, PA.