Eliza
Chin,
MD, MPH
Executive Director
American Medical Women's Association
Dr. Eliza Lo Chin is the Executive Director of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA), Assistant Professor (Voluntary) at UCSF, and Medical Director of Watermark by the Bay. Dr. Chin was co-chair of the Sex and Gender Health Education Summits. She is editor of This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine and featured in the National Library of Medicine Exhibition, Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians. She is a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of AMWA, and a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Learning objectives
1. Define sex, gender, and intersectionality of race and social variables.
2. Describe examples of sex and gender ( S/G) differences in patient-practitioner communication, and disease manifestations, diagnosis and/or treatment.
3. Use the Six Step model for interprofessional S/G based education and collaborative practice.
Differences in biological sex and gender (S/G) influence patient-practitioner communication; attitudes towards health care; diagnosis, disease management, and health outcomes. Education on this topic is deficient. To achieve the quadruple aim, it is…