Sex Matters in Emergency Medicine | Alyson McGregor | TEDxProvidence

How do we treat women properly when research is done primarily on men?

Alyson J. McGregor MD is co-founder and director for the Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) Division (formerly Women’s Health in Emergency Care) within the Department of Emergency Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University whose aim is to establish research and educational endeavors that promote sex- and gender-specific medicine and women’s health as they relate to emergency care. Dr. McGregor received her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine and residency training at Brown University where she continues to work as an attending physician at RI Hospital Emergency Department. Dr. McGregor is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and also serves as co-director for the SGEM Fellowship and co-founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative.

[tracykarinp]

Great presentation! I would like to see this presentation provided to every pharmaceutical company and at every level of the review and approval process ! Many Kudos to TEXxProvidence and Dr. Alyson McGregor for using the power of social media to inform, educate the public! This knowledge will help improve and save the lives of many people!

[jomcgregor]

Phenomenal Presentation, Alyson, and very informative.

[elizarandall]

Great talk and very important information for everyone, including both physicians and their patients, to understand. I'm training in ER medicine as a scribe (pre-med presently) and just realized that the manual recommends 324mg ASA for all patients incoming with potential MI. I'm interested to know what the dosage (if any) or different assoc. medication would be recommended for women vs. men.

[erins]

Wow. Such important info that (I can't believe) I never knew!

[KH]

So early medical research assumed that there was no major difference between men and women, this was bad for women therefore Patricarchy.

But seriously, Ambien was her only example and she didn't provide us much data about that. How widespread is this issue? How many drug trials have this problem? Over how many years has this oversight been repreated? it would only have have taken 3 minutes or so to just plug in some statistics so we understand the gravity of the problem.

Instead it's a problem cause she's a doctor and she says so.

[franzi]

Great springboard for an important topic, however what she said about aspirin is highly misleading. It is still recommended that the benefits of low dose aspirin outweigh the risks in all individuals over 50 (from UpToDate)

[jessicaleblanc]

I don't care, I still wanna be woman :)