She developed CIRWH’s infrastructure to promote involvement and success of junior faculty from a number of departments. During the past 25 years, Dr. Berenson has dedicated substantial effort to train the next generation of researchers, mentoring 21 postdoctoral fellows and 17 assistant professors from a broad array of disciplines related to healthcare of women. She has worked with early career investigators from obstetrics and gynecology, rehabilitation sciences, preventive medicine, family medicine, surgery, oncology, psychology, psychiatry, nutritional sciences, and epidemiology. Mentees include 11 MDs and 30 PhDs, the majority of whom have remained in academic research and have obtained funding as principal investigators on their own external awards.