“How the Evolution of Sex and Gender-based Research Impacts the Practice of Medicine”

2017 Meredith E. Drench Lecture

Presented by Dr. Alyson J. McGregor (MED ’03)
Co-founder and director, Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

4:00-5:00 p.m.

BU Sargent College, SAR 101

635 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, MA 02215

Admission is free. The public is cordially invited.

There will be a reception following the lecture in the Sargent College Setterberg Lounge, 2nd floor. Contact Katy Staley, 617-353-2705, for more details or to request special accommodations.

About the speaker

Alyson J. McGregor, MD MA FACEP, is a women’s health pioneer who has brought the concept of sex and gender differences in the delivery of acute medical care to the national stage. She is an associate professor of emergency medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the co-founder and director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University’s Department of Emergency Medicine.  McGregor is also a co-founder and vice chair for the national organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative.

McGregor’s research focuses on the effects that sex and gender have on emergent conditions, and she has been an advocate for this model nationally. She received her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine.

Watch last year’s Drench Lecture, “Keeping Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome Healthy: Medical Updates for Health Care Professionals” presented by Dr. Brian G. Skotko and Special Olympics Athlete Melissa Joy Reilly.