Gendered Innovations Under the Microscope (2018)

As women's participation in STEM has grown, so has our awareness of the importance of sex and gender variables in experimental design and technological innovation. This symposium will demonstrate the creative power of sex/gender analysis and how it can be harnessed to advance discovery in biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Speaker

September 13, 2018, Keynote Speaker & Panelist: Londa Schiebinger, PhD, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University; Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment - "How Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Research, Technology, and Patient Care"

Panel Discussion

• Panelist: Neelum Aggarwal, MD '92, Cognitive neurologist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurological Sciences and the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
• Panelist: Jeffrey W. Sherman, MD '81, FACP, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, Horizon Pharma
• Panelist: Dima Elissa, MBA, CEO & Founder VisMed3D, Co-founder, Symptomatic.io