President Puts Staff to Task on Sex- and Gender-Based Medicine
President Tedd L. Mitchell, M.D., recently announced the appointment of a institutional-level, multidisciplinary President’s Sex- and Gender-Based Medicine Task Force comprised of faculty representing each school.
This group will work closely with the Sex- and Gender-Based Medicine Curriculum Program, the main purpose of which is the creation of sex- and gender-based educational materials and innovative educational models for use within TTUHSC and disseminated nationally.
This task force will also serve as a think tank for future initiatives in sex and gender-based medicine, including collaboration with experts at Texas Tech.
Task force members are:
Academic Affairs
- Rial Rolfe, Ph.D., MBA (Co-Chair)
School of Medicine
- Marjorie Jenkins, M.D. (Co-Chair)
- Susan Bergeson, Ph.D.
- Betsy Jones, Ed.D.
- Robert Casanova, M.D.
- Cheryl Erwin, Ph.D., J.D.
- Michael Song, MD/PhD Student
- Heather Patel, MSII
School of Nursing
- Yondell Masten, Ph.D.
- Kellie Bruce, Ph.D.
- Marnette Winner, MSN
School of Pharmacy
- Rebecca Sleeper, Pharm.D.
- Nishil Desai, Ph.D.
- Amie Blaszczyk, CGP
School of Allied Health
- LesLee Taylor, Ph.D.
- Dawndra Sechrist, Ph.D.
School of Biomedical Sciences
- Theresa L. Byrd, D.Ph.
Laura W. Bush Women’s Health Institute
- Marley Hoggatt
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