Co-Chairs
Janice L. Werbinski, MD, FACOG, MSCP, FAMWA
Dr. Werbinski has been instrumental in introducing fundamental change in healthcare education, considering the many ways in which women’s, men’s, and other diverse populations’ health and healthcare differ. As Clinical Associate Professor Emerita at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, she teaches sex-specific medicine and menopause care. She is a past president of AMWA and co-founder of AMWA’s Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative (now SGHC). She serves as a Sex Differences Expert for the NIH ORWH CME Course, and as a Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Women’s Health Editorial Board and NIH Bench to Bedside: Integrating Sex and Gender to Improve Human Health.
In addition to being Co-Chair of SGHC, Dr. Werbinski is one of the Healthcare Leads for the Student and Mentorship Committee. Through her dedicated work with SGHC, she has served as a mentor to multiple student factsheet groups. She also reviews all factsheet graphics and SGBM Bricks.
The students of SGHC are grateful for Dr. Werbinski’s support in helping every student reach their greatest potential and dedication to changing the future of SGBM.
Sneha Michaela Chaturvedi, BA
For over 6 years, Sneha has led and supported SGBM initiatives through AMWA’s SGHC and in her own research. Sneha first joined AMWA in high school under the mentorship of Dr. Farzanna Haffizulla, a previous AMWA president. Once in college, Sneha found a home at SGHC with Dr. Jan Werbinski and began supporting student initiatives to create SGBM content for the medical school curriculum. Since then, the student initiatives have grown to include over 300 students and healthcare professionals, including a team of 10 student leaders. Outside of AMWA, Sneha is an MD/PhD student at Washington University School of Medicine, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience in the lab of Joseph Dougherty. Her thesis work focuses on understanding molecular sex variation in early neurodevelopment.
Committee Leaders
Advocacy & Outreach
Healthcare Lead: Dr. Kim Templeton, MD
Student Lead: Sophia Hai, MPH
Sophia is a first-year medical student at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She studied Human Biology at the University of Southern California before completing her Master of Public Health at the USC Keck School of Medicine, with a concentration in Health Services & Policy. Sophia has been an active member of AMWA since 2021, serving on the Premedical Division’s leadership team for several years. As Past Premedical President, she joined the AMWA Board of Directors in advocacy meetings at the White House and on Capitol Hill to promote women’s health research and policy. She hopes to continue this work by advancing the integration of sex- and gender-informed care into clinical practice and her future medical specialty. Outside of school, you can find Sophia jumping at every opportunity to sing, perfecting her matcha recipe, sewing and mending, or enjoying the Florida sun at the beach.
Education & Curriculum
Healthcare Lead: Rebecca Sleeper, PharmD
Resident Lead: Sarah Osborn, MD
Sarah is a 1st-year Internal Medicine Resident at Creighton University in Omaha. She has been involved with SGHC since July 2023. She initially oversaw factsheet development but soon became involved with the many moving parts. Her main focus is on educational materials, and she has been instrumental in advancing the factsheet project and the newly added ScholarRx Brick project. Sarah also onboards new students and assists in SGHC abstracts/publications/presentations. She is very involved with and holds leadership positions in other AMWA initiatives: PATH, GVS, and DV. Outside of medicine, you can find her trying out a new recipe, creating art, making jewelry, scuba diving, and preparing for agility competitions with her golden retrievers.
Factsheet & Brick Manager: Maya Beesley
Maya currently works in ophthalmic epidemiology clinical research at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. She graduated with her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Denver in the winter of 2024, shortly after which she became involved in SGHC. Her contributions began with factsheet generation and later with the development of a ScholarRx Brick. Now as the Factsheet and Brick Manager, she supports the SGHC Mentorship Committee by helping oversee student production of factsheets and bricks, including topic assignments, student team check-ins, mentor recruitment and coordination, and project tracking. Maya has also presented her factsheets and Bricks at national conferences, including the Women in Medicine Summit and the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Meeting. When she is not researching sex and gender dimorphisms, you can find Maya reading, hosting the book club she is president of, going to a concert with friends, baking, or in a cycling class! Maya hopes to enter an MD-PhD program in 2027 while continuing to grow the breadth of topics and conditions researched through factsheets and Bricks at SGHC.
Fundraising & Communications
Student Lead: Monica Ybarra, BS
Monica is a Master of Health Administration student at Texas A&M University with a background in biochemistry and anthropology from the University of Houston. Her work focuses on advancing sex- and gender-based medicine through education, advocacy, and healthcare leadership. She contributes to SGHC by supporting the development of educational resources and assisting with survey data analysis to evaluate our national initiatives. Monica has presented this work at regional, national, and international conferences, including the Women in Medicine Summit and the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Meeting. Through these presentations, she highlights the importance of incorporating sex and gender considerations into healthcare education to better prepare future clinicians and improve patient-centered care. In her role as fundraising and communications student lead, Monica is excited to continue showcasing SGHC’s work and to find funding to scale it.
Social Media Co-Manager: Lily Berkin
Lily Berkin is an incoming fourth-year medical student at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. She is originally from Connecticut and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to medical school, she worked in reproductive endocrinology and digital health-focused public relations, experiences that continue to shape her interests in women’s health and mental health. At Downstate, she is involved in student leadership and service, including serving on the OB/GYN Society executive board, the Brooklyn Free Clinic, and as a peer wellness mentor. In her free time, she enjoys running, reading, and singing.
Scholarship & Publications
Healthcare Co-Lead: Angela Jarman, MD, MPH
Angela Jarman is an Associate Professor and the Director of Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. She joined the faculty after completing a two-year fellowship in Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine at Brown University, where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree. Angela is a North Carolina native and majored in Gender Studies at Duke University before attending medical school at the University of Kentucky. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dr. Jarman is currently a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health scholar; her research focuses primarily on sex differences in venous thromboembolism, more specifically, pulmonary embolism diagnostics. Dr. Jarman’s research interests also include health disparities, LGBTQ+ health, & bias in medicine and leadership. In her personal life, she enjoys spending time with her three small children and hiking in Northern California.
Healthcare Co-Lead: Juliana Kling, MD, MPH, NCMP
Student Lead: Iris Dupanovic
Student & Mentorship
Healthcare Leads: Jan Werbinski, MD, and Deb Kwolek, MD
Student Lead: Sneha Chaturvedi, BA
Administration Manager: Francesca Santacroce
Francesca is a fourth-year medical student at St. George’s University pursuing a career in pediatric medicine. She graduated from NYU’s engineering school in 2019 and decided to integrate innovation with medicine. She is passionate about serving pediatric populations with empathy, especially through her 7 years of volunteering at a crisis hotline. She was introduced to SGHC by an amazing mentor and started working on a ScholarRx Brick project in 2025. Francesca enjoys tending to her plants, cooking up a good meal, practicing and teaching yoga, and spending time with her Mini Aussie, Carmy. Francesca is eager to be part of the SGHC team and to translate sex- and gender-based medical education into practice.
Website & Infrastructure
Healthcare Lead: Mary K. Rojek, PhD
Dr. Rojek is a medical sociologist and has been a leader in ensuring that gender is properly integrated into sex and gender curricula. She is the Director for Faculty Affairs and Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (SOMG). She also serves as the Director of Emerging Physician Leaders Development Program and as Associate Director of the Academy of Educators at SOMG. Dr. Rojek is Co-Founder of AMWA’s SGHC and has served as its Past President and Past Chair. She was a member of the original AMWA Women’s Health Education Working Group in 2008, which eventually became SGHC. Dr. Rojek served as Chair of the 10th Anniversary Women’s Health Education Summit in 2025, which celebrated accomplishments since the four prior Sex and Gender Health Education Summits, beginning in 2015. Dr. Rojek is a Co-PI on an NIH R25 GENDER grant, which led to the development of a faculty toolkit to enable faculty to assess and revise their curricular materials to integrate sex and gender content. The goal of this project is to improve healthcare for all. She has authored numerous publications, is a reviewer for multiple journals, has mentored students and junior faculty, and teaches about sex and gender health.
Healthcare Professional Members
- Claudia Morrissey Conlon, MD, MPH, FAMWA. Senior Associate Faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
- Connie B Newman, MD, MACP, FAMWA, FAHA. Endocrinologist and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Co-Editor of “How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice”, Elsevier, second edition, 2026.
- Jennica Siddle, MD, MPH. Emergency Medicine physician in the Prisma Health-Upstate Department of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, and directs the International Research Fellowship in Sex and Gender.
- Joanne Prasad, DDS, MPH. Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.
- Justina Trott, MD.
- Kelsey Martin, MD. Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. Clinical Director of Classical Hematology. Associate Director of Education at Women’s Health Research at Yale.
- Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD. Professor of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and by courtesy, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University. Founding director of the Stanford Women’s Health and Sex Diversity in Medicine Center.
Advisory Board Members
- Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP, Emergency Medicine. Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Affiliations: Women’s & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Rhode Island Hospital.
- Ana E. Nunez, MD. Professor, Medicine, University of Minneapolis Medical School.
- Charlea T. Massion, MD. Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA.
- Dixie Horning. Executive Director, University of California, San Francisco. Executive Director, UCSF National Center of Women’s Health.
- Eileen Hoffman, MD, FACP, Internal Medicine. Founding Member, American College of Women’s Health Physicians. Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine.
- Laura J. Miller, MD
- Lauren Walter, MD, FACEP, Emergency Medicine. Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine.
- Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD. Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Illinois College of Medicine. Associate Head for Faculty Development and Research, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Michelle Berlin, MD, MPH, Obstetrics and Gynecology. Vice Chair, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine. Professor, Department of Medical Information and Clinical Epidemiology, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University.
- Neelum Aggarwal, MD, Neurology. Director for Research, Rush Heart Center for Women. Associate Professor, Rush University Medical Center.
- Roberta E. Gebhard, DO, Family Medicine. Board Member and Peer Supporter for Physicians Just Equity.
- Susan L. Ivey, MD, MHSA, Family Medicine. Professor, Adjunct. Director of Research, Health Research for Action. Master’s faculty, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program. Problem-based learning curriculum with medical students, University of California, Berkeley.
- Tracy Madsen, MD, FACEP. Emergency Medicine. Assistant Professor, Rhode Island Hospital. Affiliations: Miriam Hospital. Brown Emergency Medicine (FKA University Emergency Medicine Foundation), Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
- Wendy S. Klein, MD, MACP, Internal Medicine. Deputy Editor, Journal of Women’s Health. Medical Director Emeritus, Health Brigade Free Clinic. Virginia Board of Health, Gubernatorial appointee. Associate Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Co-Founder, VCU Institute for Women’s Health.