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

Kimberly Gwinn, PhD

February 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM MST

Title “Exploring Nematode Interactions with Cannabis”

Kimberly D. Gwinn is a Professor of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee. Her lab currently investigates natural products that are produced by plants and microbes and their uses as medicines and as bio-pesticides. She has also explored the production of […]

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Kenneth Frost, PhD.

Wed, Nov. 20, 11:00AM MST

Recognizing diseases of hemp grown in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

Ken Frost is an Associate Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. His research and extension program is located at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hermiston, Oregon, […]

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Joshua Kellogg, PhD.

Wed, Oct. 16, 11:00AM MST

Cannabinoids: From the Plant to the Gut

Dr. Joshua Kellogg is an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, where his lab employs transdisciplinary approaches at the interface of analytical chemistry, chemical biology, natural product chemistry, and molecular biology to further human, plant, animal, and environmental health. His team works to […]

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Godfrey Pearlson, PHD.

10 October 2024, 1:00PM MST

Cannabis and driving: knowns and known unknowns

Dr. Pearlson’s medical training was at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Following internship he completed a graduate degree in philosophy at Columbia University in New York and was then successively a resident, postdoctoral fellow and faculty member at Johns Hopkins […]

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Suman Chandra, MPhil, PhD.

18 September 2024, 11:AM MST

Cannabis: An Old Plant with New Horizons, Botany and Biomass Production for the Drug Development

Dr. Chandra earned his M.Phil. degree in Environmental Plant Physiology and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from The High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Center, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), India. From 1992 to 2000, […]

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Carrie Cuttler, PHD.

12 September 2024, 1:00PM MST

Chronic and Acute Effects of High Potency Cannabis Flower and Concentrates on Cognition

Dr. Carrie Cuttler received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and subsequently conducted a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of […]

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