Dr. Jamie Lo and Dr. Jason Hedges, Impact of Cannabis on Fertility and Reproductive Health

June 2022

Dr. Jamie Lo

Jamie Lo, MD, MCR is an Associate Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University and in the Division of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Her primary research mission is to determine the impact of environmental perturbations, including substance use, reproductive health, pregnancy outcomes, and offspring development. This work primarily focuses on using non-human primate models and most recently, given the increasing prevalence and legalization of cannabis, she has developed a rhesus macaque model of chronic marijuana use to study impacts on reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes.

Dr. Jason Hedges

Jason C. Hedges, MD PhD is an Associate Professor and residency program director in the Department of Urology at Oregon Health & Science University specializing in sexual and reproductive medicine, erectile dysfunction, and male factor infertility. His primary research mission it to improve male reproductive health and fertility, and he is currently focused on studying the impact of chronic cannabis use in a non-human primate model.

Previous Webinars

Devan Kansagara, MD., MCR.

June 12th 1:00 PM MST

Systematically Testing the Evidence on Marijuana (STEM): Bridging the Science of Cannabis Health Effects and Clinical Practice

Devan Kansagara MD, MCR is a Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He practices and teaches primary care and hospital-based internal medicine in the VA Portland Health Care System. His work in […]

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Nolan Kane, PhD.

May 21, 2025 11:00 AM Mountain Time

Genetics, chemistry and the evolution of sex chromosomes in Cannabis

Dr. Nolan Kane is an associate professor in the ebio department at the university of Colorado, boulder. he uses genomic approaches to study adaptation to new environments, domestication of wild plants into valuable crops, and the formation of new species. his […]

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Dan Covey, PhD.

May 8, 2025, 1:00 PM

Effects of isolated cannabinoids and endocannabinoids on emotional behavior in rodents

Dr. Covey is currently an Assistant Professor at Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute (LBRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He started this position in June 2020 after completing his PhD at Illinois State University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland […]

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Andrew Kesner, PhD

Preclinical modeling of spontaneous Δ-9-THC withdrawal symptoms in mice: sleep, dopamine, and behavioral maladaptations

April 10th, 1:00PM MST

Dr. Kesner is the Chief of the Unit on Motivation and Arousal at National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The mission of his lab is to use systems neuroscience approaches to understand how brain systems controlling motivated […]

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Roberta Paris, PhD.

Genetic, molecular and biochemical studies on the accumulation of bioactive compounds in Cannabis sativa L.

19 March, 2025, 11:00 AM  

Dr. Roberta Paris studied at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, where she obtained the PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2006. She is a permanent researcher at Council for Agricultural Research and Economic, Research […]

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Sarah D. Lichenstein, PhD.

Neural mechanisms of risk for problem-level cannabis use among emerging adults

Dr. Lichenstein is a licensed clinical psychologist, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Assistant Director of the Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology Lab at Yale School of Medicine. She received her BA in Psychology from Bard College (2008), and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the […]

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