Janice
Werbinski,
MD
Associate Clinical Professor Emerita
Western Michigan University
Homer Stryker School of Medicine
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 appropriate 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:
Interprofessional Student Poster Description: Fewer than 20% of medical schools have incorporated a sex and gender-based health education (SGHE) curriculum that goes beyond the scope of traditional ObGyn. (Jenkins et al. 2016). 94% of medical students acknowledge that understanding SGBM enhances patient management, but only 25% feel adequately prepared to address sex and gender differences in their practice. To address this gap, the Sex and Gender Health Collaborative (SGHC) of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) launched a National Student Sex and Gender Education Initiative.…