VIDEO: Inaugural Scrubs & Heels Summit demonstrates the need for female empowerment in GI
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MIAMI — In a Healio video exclusive, Aline Charabaty, MD, and Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, co-founders of the women-focused Scrubs & Heels Summit, recap an “extremely successful” inaugural event and share their expectations for future summits.
“We are ecstatic that we have successfully launched and now completed our inaugural summit 2022,” Afzali, a gastroenterologist and professor of clinical medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, said. “It has been an amazing turnout, well over the amount of people we anticipated, who will be a part of Scrubs & Heels. It certainly demonstrates the need, the purpose, the shared commitment toward the mission of what we've established.”
In addition to providing educational sessions, panels and speakers, the Scrubs & Heels Summit also included breakout experiences for personal and professional development, as well as time for relaxation and glam.
“What I'm most excited about is that we're really realizing now that as women in GI we need to design our career the way we want to,” Charabaty, assistant clinical director of the GI Division at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and clinical director of the IBD Center at Johns Hopkins-Sibley Memorial Hospital, added. “A lot of professional pathways have been designed by men and for men, and women have different life events, journeys, visions, needs and goals. Understanding that we need to embrace that, promote that and facilitate this journey is just a fantastic thing to do, not only to grow ourselves as professionals but to grow our profession in GI.”
The co-founders look forward to Scrubs & Heels Summit 2023 and urge all GI professionals to be on the lookout for events throughout the year.
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