Stacey A Ritz
Biographic Data
| ID | 141158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacey A Ritz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritz |
| SIGNATURE | RITZ S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6192-182X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A scoping review of the upstream influences of admissions policies on applicant behaviour
INTRODUCTION: Anecdotes from university faculty and educational leaders suggest that medical school admissions policies are driving aspirant behavior in unintended ways. This paper reviews the existing literature for evidence of admission policies' upstream impact on applicant behavior. METHODS: We used a scoping review to summarize research published between 1980-2025, written in English, with empirical evidence of medical school applicants' beh…
Limitations of the Male/Female Binary for Studying the Influences of Sex‐ and Gender‐Related Factors on Health
Momentum has been building for several decades around the value of incorporating sex and gender considerations in biomedical, clinical, and health research more broadly. In that period, there has been a proliferation of guidelines, policies, definitions, methods, and conceptual frameworks for doing so, which is both constructive and challenging: the diversity of concepts and methods generates knowledge that highlights different aspects of the phe…
Attending to Power
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with a wide range of mental and physical health concerns. Research suggests that many physicians lack knowledge and skills to adequately respond to patients experiencing IPV. In order to better integrate physicians' contributions into intersectoral responses to IPV, we asked stakeholders with expertise and experience related to IPV about the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors they wanted them…
Transcending the Male–Female Binary in Biomedical Research
Accounting for the influences of sex- and gender-related factors on health is one of the most interesting and important challenges in contemporary health research. In biomedical research, models, experimental designs, and statistical analyses create particular challenges in attempting to incorporate the complex, dynamic, and context-dependent constructs of sex and gender. Here, we offer conceptual elaborations of the constructs of sex and gender …
Sex, Gender and Health
Including sex and gender considerations in health research is considered essential by many funders and is very useful for policy makers, program developers, clinicians, consumers and other end users. While longstanding confusions and conflations of terminology in the sex and gender field are well documented, newer conceptual confusions and conflations continue to emerge. Contemporary social demands for improved health and equity, as well as incre…
Conceptualizing Physicians’ Roles in Addressing Intimate Partner Violence
Resources addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) play a role in shaping how physicians conceptualize and perform their roles in caring for affected patients. This study combines environmental scanning with critical discourse analysis (CDA) to parse how roles of physicians were represented in 28 education materials and policy documents about IPV, taking the Canadian training milieu as an example. We developed a cyclical model of three core phy…
Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track
Assemblages of sex are continuously being enacted by policymakers, scientists, and medical providers across a range of settings, resulting in multiple and often contradictory notions of what “sex” is and how it is expressed in the body. As feminist scholars have shown, such enactments are mutable yet resilient, often with the net effect of restricting how “sex” can emerge as a material dimension of our embodied, lived experiences. What happens wh…
Complexities of Addressing Sex in Cell Culture Research
The documentation of gendered disparities in health has led to calls for scientists across the spectrum of biomedical research to attend to sex and gender considerations in their work. In basic experimental laboratory research with cells, it has often been suggested that researchers should use cells from both male and female donors in their experiments. In this essay, I discuss some of the complexities of addressing sex in vitro that render this …
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Complexities of Addressing Sex in Cell Culture Research
The documentation of gendered disparities in health has led to calls for scientists across the spectrum of biomedical research to attend to sex and gender considerations in their work. In basic experimental laboratory research with cells, it has often been suggested that researchers should use cells from both male and female donors in their experiments. In this essay, I discuss some of the complexities of addressing sex in vitro that render this …
Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track
Assemblages of sex are continuously being enacted by policymakers, scientists, and medical providers across a range of settings, resulting in multiple and often contradictory notions of what “sex” is and how it is expressed in the body. As feminist scholars have shown, such enactments are mutable yet resilient, often with the net effect of restricting how “sex” can emerge as a material dimension of our embodied, lived experiences. What happens wh…
Transcending the Male–Female Binary in Biomedical Research
Accounting for the influences of sex- and gender-related factors on health is one of the most interesting and important challenges in contemporary health research. In biomedical research, models, experimental designs, and statistical analyses create particular challenges in attempting to incorporate the complex, dynamic, and context-dependent constructs of sex and gender. Here, we offer conceptual elaborations of the constructs of sex and gender …
Sex, Gender and Health
Including sex and gender considerations in health research is considered essential by many funders and is very useful for policy makers, program developers, clinicians, consumers and other end users. While longstanding confusions and conflations of terminology in the sex and gender field are well documented, newer conceptual confusions and conflations continue to emerge. Contemporary social demands for improved health and equity, as well as incre…
Conceptualizing Physicians’ Roles in Addressing Intimate Partner Violence
Resources addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) play a role in shaping how physicians conceptualize and perform their roles in caring for affected patients. This study combines environmental scanning with critical discourse analysis (CDA) to parse how roles of physicians were represented in 28 education materials and policy documents about IPV, taking the Canadian training milieu as an example. We developed a cyclical model of three core phy…
Limitations of the Male/Female Binary for Studying the Influences of Sex‐ and Gender‐Related Factors on Health
Momentum has been building for several decades around the value of incorporating sex and gender considerations in biomedical, clinical, and health research more broadly. In that period, there has been a proliferation of guidelines, policies, definitions, methods, and conceptual frameworks for doing so, which is both constructive and challenging: the diversity of concepts and methods generates knowledge that highlights different aspects of the phe…
Attending to Power
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with a wide range of mental and physical health concerns. Research suggests that many physicians lack knowledge and skills to adequately respond to patients experiencing IPV. In order to better integrate physicians' contributions into intersectoral responses to IPV, we asked stakeholders with expertise and experience related to IPV about the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors they wanted them…
A scoping review of the upstream influences of admissions policies on applicant behaviour
INTRODUCTION: Anecdotes from university faculty and educational leaders suggest that medical school admissions policies are driving aspirant behavior in unintended ways. This paper reviews the existing literature for evidence of admission policies' upstream impact on applicant behavior. METHODS: We used a scoping review to summarize research published between 1980-2025, written in English, with empirical evidence of medical school applicants' beh…
Epistemology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sex and Gender in Healthcare (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Operationalization (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Biological sex (2 works)