Marjorie Jenkins MD
Dr. Marjorie “MJ” Jenkins a well-known expert in women’s health and sex and gender medicine, Dr. Jenkins has served in a variety of national roles such as Program Chair of the 2015 and 2018 National Sex and Gender Health Professional Education Summits and Co-chair of the Reproduction Work Group for NASA’s Sex and Gender Decadal Review. She is a past member of the USMLE Women’s Health National Board of Medical Examiners Writing Group and has served as an expert for HRSA and NIH. In 2007 she founded and served as executive director for the Texas Tech University Laura W. Bush Institute (LWBI), a research and education institute focusing on sex and gender women’s health which now spans across six campuses. By invitation, Dr. Jenkins spent four years at the US Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health as Director of Research and Scientific Programs. One could say Dr Jenkins “wrote the book” on sex and gender in medical care through her role as co-developer and lead editor for the 2020 textbook, How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice.Throughout her career as a clinician, researcher, and educator, she has partnered with thousands of women to navigate their path to wellness. Dr. Jenkins has spoken for over two hundred consumer and scientific audiences across the world. A top career and life goal has been to educate and empower health professionals and patients in refusing a “one size fits all” approach within the medical and wellness industries. Without access to captivating and accurate information, women can struggle to know who to trust with their health, and they suffer as a result. Dr. Jenkins believes it’s time to change that.