About Dr. McGregor
Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP is a women’s health pioneer who has brought the concept of sex and gender differences in the delivery of acute medical care to the national stage.
She is an Associate Dean of Clinical Faculty Affairs and Development and Professor Department of Emergency Medicine at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Dr. McGregor is also a Co-Founder for the national organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative.
Dr. McGregor’s research focus is on the effects that sex and gender have on emergent conditions. She has been an advocate for this model nationally, speaking widely to both medical professionals and laypeople. Her TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” currently has over 1.5 million views, and has sparked a national conversation around how sex and gender influence medical treatment and outcomes.
She has written or co-written over sixty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals on the topic of sex and gender. She’s also the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).