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