Interview and Podcast
Sex-differences are an important emerging topic in medicine, and especially physiology. This episode, Dr. Heddwen Brooks, the new chair of Tulane's Department of Physiology, describes her and her department's studies on sex-differences in health, and more specifically, women's health in aging. She discusses the history of data pooling between males and females, and the different ways that diseases can affect the sexes differently, even COVID-19. Episode hosted by James Zanewicz.
As the new director of the Tulane Center of Excellence in Sex-Based Biology and Medicine, Dr. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis has a lot of passion for sex-differences in medicine. Listen as Dr. Mauvais-Jarvis discusses what inspired him to create the Center and his belief that sex-differences are at the frontier of medicine as a whole. He further describes the importance of sex-differences in the design of medical research. Episode hosted by Dr. Elaine Hamm.