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The Partnership’s Annual Conference

conf1 The Partnership sponsors an annual scientific conference at Columbia University on a topic of particular interest. This year our conference was Women, Men, and Stress: Gender-Specific Differences in its Causes, Prevention and the Response to Intervention and was held on Saturday, September 25, 2010.

Program Description/ Objectives:

Gender-specific medicine is the study of the differences in the normal function of women and men and in their experience of the same diseases.

Women and men experience stress as a consequence of quite different events and circumstances. Their neurobiological substrate for processing and reacting to stress
is in many respects sex specific as is their response to intervention.

legato This conference explored these sex- and gender-specific phenomena. This conference was held particularly for healthcare professionals—both generalists and those who specialize in the treatment of individuals who are experiencing stress—including family practitioners, internists, OB/GYNs, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and fellows and residents.

legato In particular, the faculty:

Examined the evidence-based differences in women and men's experience of stress, with special emphasis on the gender-specific features of its causes, symptoms, coping mechanisms, and response to intervention.
Affirmed the critical role of healthcare professionals in recognizing the signs and symptoms of acute and chronic stress in women and men, and distinguished the experience of stress from depression and/or anxiety states.
Provided evidence-based guidelines for effective ways of assessing, preventing and/or alleviating stress for women and men, including the use of
complementary modalities.
Addressed the causative role of unmanaged chronic stress in producing significant medical disease.

Course Director: Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Clinical Medicine; Founder and Director, Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University; Founder and Director, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, Inc., Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York

Visit the conference website and view the speakers' presentations.

International Conferences

International Conferences The Partnership participates in international conferences on a regular basis; in 2010-2011 we have collaborated or will collaborate in international conferences held in Italy, Israel and Austria.