Why McGregor at Brown Alpert Medical School Chooses “Sex Matters” -Live at 4pm

Thursday, May 14, 2020

GoLocalProv News Team

Dr. Allison McGregor, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Brown Alpert Medical College, Will be appearing on Go Local LIVE’s “Smart Health” at 4pm on Thursday to discuss her latest book, “Sex Matters.”

Sex matters Addressing one of the most urgent and unsolved problems facing women’s health care today: All models of medical research and practice address the unique biological and emotional relationship between men and women. It is based on a male-centered model that ignores differences in life-fallouts can endanger women’s lives.

The facts surrounding how male-centered medicine affects women’s health every day is cold: in the ER, women are more likely to undergo psychiatric diagnoses of opioid use and men for detoxification. It is likely to be introduced. The more pain a vocalizing woman has, the more likely the donor will be to prescribe inappropriate or inappropriate analgesics. Women often show symptoms of nontraditional stroke, which causes cognitive delays both by them and their health care professionals. A government accountability study found that 80% of drugs withdrawn from the market were due to side effects in women (mainly as a result of testing drugs in men).

A leading expert in gender and gender medicine, McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences can be most harmful, addressing the following:

* Diagnosis of heart and stroke and treatment of women
* Pharmaceutical prescription and medication;
* Subjective assessment of female symptoms;
* Pain and pain management.
* Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones);
* How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional important factors.

About McGregor

McGregor is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, and is a co-founder and director of the Department of Emergency Medicine Sex and Gender (SGEM). Her research on the role of sex and gender in emergencies includes more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, making her a spokesperson and advocate for women around the world.

McGregor is the co-founder and former Vice Chairman of the National Organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative, which aims to promote sex and gender commitments in education and clinical practice.

She is an avid educator and co-chair of the National Sex and Gender Health Education Summit designed to establish an integrated sex and gender curriculum for current and future health professionals. It was. Dr. McGregor is also the director of SGEM’s two-year fellowship program and SGEM education electives for residents and medical students.

McGregor is the chief editor of Cambridge University Press’ textbook Sex and Gender in Acute Care. Her TED talk “Why Women Have Frequent Women’s Side Effects” has had over 1.5 million views, and she has published her new book “Sex Matter: Men-Centered Medicine Helps Women’s Health”. We look forward to the release of How to Risk and What We Can Do. About that, ”Hatchet Book Group Publishing, published in the spring of 2020.

For more information on McGregor, follow alysonmcgregormd.com and follow @mcgregormd on Twitter.

About smart health

Since receiving its first PhD in Medicine in 1975, Warren Alpert School of Medicine has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research. Medical schools and their seven associated teaching hospitals have fundamentally improved the state’s healthcare environment, from healthcare policies to patient care, by attracting top doctors and researchers to Rhode Island over the past 40 years.

“Smart Health” is a GoLocalProv.com segment featuring GoLocal LIVE experts at Warren Alpert Medical School.

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