“How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice”: Dean of the UofSC School of Medicine Greenville leads development of new book
March 9, 2021
Dr. Marjorie Jenkins MD MEdHP FACP, the Dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Associate Provost at the University of South Carolina, and Chief Academic Officer for Prisma Health–Upstate co-led the development of a new book from publisher Elsevier: How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care.
The co-editor for this work is Dr. Connie Newman, an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, to provide a practical framework to enable primary care clinicians to better care for their patients.
Each chapter covers a subspecialty in medicine and discusses the influence of sex hormones on disease, along with sex and gender-based differences in clinical presentation, physical examination, laboratory results, treatment regimens, comorbidities and prognosis. Illustrative case examples and constructive practice points help each chapter come alive. A special chapter on communication differences between men and women assists clinicians in their conversations with patients.
This book is the first-of-its-kind for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health professions. In order to provide the highest quality personalized care for patients, healthcare must move past a one-sex, gender-blind approach. Differences matter and having the knowledge provided in this book will save and improve countless lives.
The book is now available on all major literary resource sites including Amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble and Elsevier.
Book Links
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Impact-Clinical-Practice-Evidence-Based/dp/0128165693 (Kindle and Paperback)
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-sex-and-gender-impact-clinical-practice-marjorie-jenkins/1133191266?ean=9780128167502
Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/books/how-sex-and-gender-impact-clinical-practice/jenkins/978-0-12-816569-0
About Dr. Marjorie Jenkins MD MEdHP FACP
Dr. Jenkins serves as the Dean of the School of Medicine Greenville, Associate Provost at the University of South Carolina, and Chief Academic Officer for Prisma Health–Upstate. She has served many additional leadership roles such as Director of Medical Initiatives and Scientific Engagement at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health (OWH); Graduate Research Program Director, Master of Education for Health Professions at Johns Hopkins University College of Education; and Professor of Internal Medicine and Founding Director and Chief Scientific Officer for the Laura W. Bush Institute at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. She is a founder and past co-chair of the National Sex and Gender in Health Professions Education Summit. She is nationally and internationally known in the area of sex and gender-specific clinical care, research application, and health professions curriculum development.
