Alyson Joy McGregor, MD

Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP, is a physician, researcher, writer and advocate. She is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and will serve as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Dr. McGregor was the co-founder and director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University from 2010–2021, where her research on the roles sex and gender play in emergent conditions has made her a spokesperson and advocate for women around the world.

Dr. McGregor currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee Research on Women’s Health for the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health. She is a co-founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Health Collaborative and serves on the Advisory Council to the Sex and Gender Health Education Summit series, which is designed to establish an integrative sex and gender curriculum for current and future health professionals. The former director for a Sex and Gender two-year fellowship program and educational electives for residents and medical students at Brown University, Dr. McGregor has published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in sex, gender, diversity, medical education, and women’s health.

Dr. McGregor’s TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” currently has more than 1.7 million views, and she has recently released her new book, “Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It,”

In her role as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development, she will serve on the Dean’s Executive Leadership Team and will facilitate the recruitment, development, and advancement of a diverse academic workforce that promotes excellence and furthers the mission of the medical school and the purpose of Prisma Health.