“The Alicante center highlights studies that can contribute to comprehensive patient care and improve the quality of healthcare services.”
“The initiative brings together research and healthcare professionals for a full day at Doctor Balmis General Hospital in Alicante.”
“Alicante (08.02.24). The Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL) held today a gender‑perspective research session in which researchers presented projects from various fields analyzing the influence of patients’ sex on specific aspects related to healthcare.”
“This session forms part of the celebrations for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, commemorated on 11 February, and was held at Doctor Balmis Hospital in Alicante.”
“During the meeting, professionals presented studies on the beliefs and stereotypes present in healthcare. They also addressed topics such as gender biases in pain medicine, sex‑based comparative analysis in arthritis, and innovation through personalized diagnosis for symptoms of irritability and depression in the premenstrual stage.”
“The event was opened by the Regional Director of the Department of Health in Alicante, Begoña Comendador; the Manager of the Alicante–General Hospital Health Department, Francisco Soriano; the Director of the Research Secretariat at the University of Alicante, Maribel Beltrán; and ISABIAL’s Scientific Director, Cristina Alenda.”
“At the end of the event, the participants were presented with a certificate in recognition of their work and their efforts to incorporate equity into their health research projects and to identify different health risk factors, thereby contributing to a more comprehensive approach to healthcare.”
“The closing of ISABIAL’s gender‑perspective research session featured the participation of the Nursing Director of the Alicante–General Hospital Health Department, Remedio Yañez, and ISABIAL’s Deputy Scientific Director, Enrique de Madaria.”
Gender-perspective projects presented in the session:
Alba Marina Lucart. “Deciphering the cellular origin of non-coding RNAs underlying environmental enrichment/exercise interventions for Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases through extracellular vesicles”.
María Mellado. “Comparative analysis by sex in calcium pyrophosphate crystal arthritis”.
María Teresa Ruiz. “Gender interactions in healthcare: beliefs, stereotypes and cognitive biases”.
Claudia Carratalá. “Text mining analysis of sex/gender interaction on analgesic response”.
Ana Peiró. “Gender bias in pain medicine: from omics to healthcare”. (SEGEN)”.
Raquel Ajo. “Recovery of AV conduction in post-TAVI patients with permanent pacemakers. Protocol code: MARCATAV”.
Paloma Vela. “Gender differences in clinical characteristics and prescription of biological and synthetic drugs in naïve patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Data from the Biobadaser 3.0 registry”.
Sandra González. “Factors associated with the transmission of the Mediterranean diet from mothers to children during childhood and its association with levels of environmental contaminants in urine and cardiometabolic risk markers”.
Ana María Palacios. “Analysis of the relationship between maternal age and obstetric and perinatal outcomes”.
Beatriz Martínez y Celia Astor. “Comprehensive radiological approach to gender-based violence”.
Juana Lafaja Mazuecos. “Trastorno disfórico premenstrual: Innovación a través de un diagnóstico personalizado”.
