Alice
Liu
Medical Student
University of Michigan
Alice J. Liu is a fourth year medical school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is recently completed a graduate program at UT Austin pursuing an MA in design with a focus on health. Her professional interests include exploring the relationship between architectural design in hospitals or outpatient clinics and patient experience.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
BACKGROUNDInfertility is defined as the failure to become pregnant after 1 year of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse, highlighting physiological roots while omitting social drivers. Social infertility occurs “when social or relational factors, such as being single or in a same-sex relationship, limit one's ability to become pregnant”. While the American Society of Reproductive Medicine released an expanded definition of infertility in October 2023 to include those navigating social infertility, these groups continue to be excluded from most other clinical infertility definitions and…