Janice
Werbinski,
MD, FACOG, FAMWA
Associate Clinical Professor Emerita
Western Michigan University
Board-certified in OBGyn, Dr. Werbinski practiced Women's Health and Gynecology for 40 years, retiring in 2013. She is former Medical Director of Bronson Women's Center, Borgess Women's Health, and the Kalamazoo YWCA Sexual Assault Center.
As Clinical Associate Professor Emerita at WMed, she teaches and wrote an iBook on Sex specific medicine. Past President of AMWA, she is a founder of AMWA’s Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative, informing providers in sex and gender specific medicine.
She is a peer reviewer for the NIH ORWH "Bench to Bedside" modules to inform providers about sex and gender specific medicine.
She has been instrumental in introducing a fundamental change in women’s healthcare, considering the many ways in which women’s and men’s healthcare differ.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Sex and gender-related health disparities significantly impact patient outcomes. Despite the importance of sex- and gender-based medicine (SGBM) in personalizing medical care to patients’ unique needs, health professional education and training is lacking sex and gender health education (SGHE) content. In one study, 48% of medical residents answered incorrectly or unsure when asked knowledge questions about sex- and gender-related differences in medicine (Kling et al, 2016). In response to this critical gap, the American Medical Women’s Association’s Sex and Gender Health Collaborative (AMWA-…