Peer Influence

Students from historically Black colleges and universities experience unique barriers to medical school admissions, including preferential treatment of students from predominantly white institutions, according to study results.

Individual stressors that occur in day-to-day work life are “microtraumas” that eventually aggregate to significantly impact quality of life, according to Ishwaria M. Subbiah, MD, MS.

CHICAGO – Laura Desveaux, PhD, MSCPT, clearly remembers the day she found the inspiration that guided her career. It was 2018, she had a 10-month-old baby at home, and she was attending a women’s leadership conference featuring renowned physician and speaker Julie Silver, MD. Almost as soon as the speakers took the podium, Desveaux, scientific director at Trillium Health Partners, assistant professor at Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at University of Toronto, and executive director of Women Who Lead, said she could “feel the buzz.”

In this issue, Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with registered dietitian and diabetes care and education specialist Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, FADCES, about diabetes peer support.