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Dr. Alyson J McGregor, MD

Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, Brown University

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 (SGEM). Her research on the roles sex and gender have in emergent conditions includes over 60 peer reviewed publications and has made her a spokesperson and advocate for women around the world.
Dr. McGregor is a Co-Founder and Past Vice Chair of the national organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative, whose purpose is to foster a sex and gender approach to education and clinical practice.
She is an avid educator and served as Co-Chair of the national Sex and Gender Health Education Summit, designed to establish an integrative sex and gender curriculum for current and future health professionals. Dr. McGregor is also the director for a SGEM two-year fellowship program and SGEM educational electives for residents and medical students.
Dr. McGregor is the lead editor for the textbook “Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine”, Cambridge University Press. Her TED talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects For Women,” currently has over 1.6 million views and she recently released her new book “Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It”, Hatchet Book Group Publishing.

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Day I
June 1, 2022
6:30 pm

Keynote: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health

Women’s bodies are different from men’s bodies on a cellular level - yet the same treatments are usually prescribed for both sexes, even though women metabolise drugs differently so certain drugs remain in the system for longer or drop to dangerously low levels at certain points of the menstrual cycle. The impact of medication on women's QT (the resting time between heartbeats) is another example of differences between men and women. A woman’s QT is longer than a man’s and many prescription drugs –antidepressants, antihistamines, painkillers, antibiotics – cause incremental QT increases as a side-effect. For women taking multiple medications simultaneously (statistically women are more likely to be on multiple medications at the time), the risk of these combined increases can range from simple arrhythmia to sudden cardiac death.
Dr. Alyson J McGregor, MD
1 June
Time:  6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Location:  Women’s bodies are different from men’s bodies on a cellular level - yet the same treatments are usually prescribed for both sexes, even though women metabolise drugs differently so certain drugs remain in the system for longer or drop to dangerously low levels at certain points of the menstrual cycle. The impact of medication on women's QT (the resting time between heartbeats) is another example of differences between men and women. A woman’s QT is longer than a man’s and many prescription drugs –antidepressants, antihistamines, painkillers, antibiotics – cause incremental QT increases as a side-effect. For women taking multiple medications simultaneously (statistically women are more likely to be on multiple medications at the time), the risk of these combined increases can range from simple arrhythmia to sudden cardiac death.
Speaker:  Dr. Alyson J McGregor, MD