Podcast appearances and mentions of Marianne J Legato

The title of this episode was initially intended to be “Why Women Outlive Men.” But with an exceptionally well-versed guest like Dr. Marianne Legato, our conversation took a turn that went above and beyond what I'd hoped to dive into. Today we have a very special episode where we discuss how Dr. Legato helped shift the very nature of medicine from being dominated by the male biology to include that of women. She then discusses the current shifts in medicine intended to break down the enigma of gender fluidity and create a word of medicine that includes nonbinary bodies. Dr. Marianne J. Legato is a pioneer in the field of gender-specific medicine. She led the effort to establish sex and gender as important variables in the way we think not just about the experience and treatment of disease, but also health and lifestyle. She began her work in gender-specific medicine by authoring the first book on women and heart disease, The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Coronary Artery Disease, which won the Blakeslee Award of the American Heart Association in 1992. Because of this research, the cardiovascular community began to include women in clinical trials affirming the fact that the risk factors, symptoms, and treatment of the same disease can be significantly different between the sexes. Her latest academic textbook, The Plasticity of Sex, on which this book is based, won a 2021 PROSE Award in the category of biomedicine. She maintains one of the only gender-specific private practices in New York City, and she has consistently been named one of the “Top Doctors in New York for several decades. Who's Who has just cited her for a lifetime achievement award.  Connect with her at www.gendermed.org

What can science reveal about bias in our education, healthcare, and other social systems? It turns out, quite a bit. This series of short talks from experts in the fields of medicine, law, education, and business explores where bias comes from, the importance of facing the fraught history of bias, and how we might benefit from striving to be “good-ish” rather than “good.” Speakers include: Dolly Chugh, professor at New York University's Stern School of Business; Marianne J. Legato, physician and director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine; Daniel Braunfeld, Associate Program Director for Special Projects at Facing History and Ourselves; and Jonathan Kahn, the James E. Kelly Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. This lecture took place at the Museum on November 28, 2018, under the title “New Science, New Solutions: The Biology of Bias and the Future of Our Species.” This lecture is generously supported by the Abel Shafer Public Program Fund, a fund created by the Arlene B. Coffey Trust to honor the memory of Abel Shafer.

Guest: Marianne Legato, MD Host: Maurice Pickard, MD What does the research show about why men as a whole approach healthcare differently than women? How do physical, mental and environmental factors impact male health? Dr. Marianne J. Legato, professor of medicine at Columbia University and author of Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan, joins host Dr. Maurie Pickard to discuss andropause, male depression, and heart health, as well as the general subject of disease, and risk-taking, screening feelings about mortality, and more.