ANN ARBOR—When it comes to health care for the heart, women, particularly African-American women, sometimes receive poorer quality medical care than their male counterparts.

This phenomenon has been documented in studies and will be the subject of a lecture at the University of Michigan School of Public Health on March 24 by Dr. Debra R. Judelson, a well-known cardiologist and women’s health expert.

A past president of the American Medical Women’ Association and a member of two Measurement Advisory Panels at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Judelson is actively engaged in establishing guidelines to prevent heart disease in women.

She is the author of numerous publications and is co-author of “The Women’s Complete Wellness Book” (Golden Books, 1998).

Judelson’s talk, “Coronary Heart Disease in Women: How Gender Differences Impact Quality of Care,” is scheduled for 4 p.m., in auditorium one of the School of Public Health on South Observatory. It is free and open to the public.

The lecture is part of the yearlong lecture series, “Quality Assessment in Women’s Health Care,” sponsored by the U-M School of Public Health. The series is supported by a grant from Pfizer Inc.

The Women’s Complete Wellness BookPfizer Inc.