Em Pulse

Happy National Women Physicians Day and National Wear Red Day, promoting awareness of heart disease in women! In this month’s Heartbeat, we have the privilege of speaking with the brilliant and visionary Dr. Alyson McGregor. Dr. McGregor is an emergency physician who specializes in sex and gender emergency medicine. She spoke with us about heart disease - the number one killer of women in the US - and how our current algorithms, diagnostic tests, and treatments are flawed. We’ll hear more from Alyson in an upcoming episode, so stay tuned! We’d love to hear from you! Connect with us on social media, @empulsepodcast, or on our website, ucdavisem.com.  *** Register now for the 43rd annual UC Davis Emergency Medicine Winter Conference, February 24th-29th at the Ritz Carlton in Lake Tahoe! *** Please subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes - it helps others discover us!  Host: Dr. Sarah Medeiros, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Guest: Dr. Alyson McGregor, Associate Prof