Gender and Sexuality Studies

Abstract

The science surrounding how biological sex and/or gender can impact clinically relevant health outcomes has exploded over the past decade. Yet, many practitioners remain unaware than an individual's biological sex can influence how their body responds to trauma, toxins, infections, medications and chronic diseases, or that an individual's gender can affect their interaction with providers and health care systems. This talk focuses on 5 things every health care provider should know about sex and gender to ensure that they are practicing up to date medicine. 

Biography

Dr Jeannette Wolfe is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan School of Medicine-Baystate and the endowed Joy McCann Professor at UMass Chan School of Medicine. She has spent her academic career working in one of the highest acuity emergency departments in the United States and has studied, written and lectured about sex and gender differences in medicine for more than a decade. Her two main focuses are to help integrate the variables of sex and gender into main stream medicine and to ensure that women in medicine have the tools to optimize their professional careers.  She is the host and creator of the seX & whY podcast.