Dr. Stacey A. Ritz is the Assistant Dean of the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program at McMaster University, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine.  After completing her PhD in immunology at McMaster University, and a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA, she served as a faculty member at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine from 2005-2015, and returned to McMaster in 2015. Her current scholarship focusses on the integration of sex and gender considerations into laboratory-based biomedical research and health research more broadly, and critical literacy in health professional education.