Women In Medicine

This year’s Women in Medicine Summit will be held virtually on Sept. 24 to Sept. 25. The conference identifies barriers that women in medicine face and offers solutions to gender inequity.

In the spring of 2019, Heather A. Wakelee, MD, was approached by a group of young women seeking guidance and connection in their careers as thoracic oncologists.

Representation of women among full-time tenure-line faculty members decreases with progression in rank, Audina M. Berrocal, MD, said in a keynote presentation at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.

A physician’s job is never done, but for three oncologists, incorporating health, nutrition and mindfulness into their daily lives is vital to maintaining a sense of wellness and being fully present whether at home or work.

It is not for a lack of numbers of women in the workforce that accounts for the substantial leadership gap between men and women.

For 2 years, Kellie Lease Stecher, MD, had advocated for safe reporting structures at her institution so that incidents of harassment could be submitted anonymously and evaluated objectively.

Narjust Duma, MD, and Gladys I. Rodriguez, MD, brought to formation ASCO’s first Young Investigators Award for Latinas, an effort driven by their passion to retain and elevate Latin/Hispanic women in academic oncology.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a pause on progress made toward closing the gender gap, according to AWIR president Grace C. Wright, MD, who spoke with panelists here to identify the current state of these efforts and devise a path forward.

In this Healio Video Perspective from the AWIR Annual Conference, Janet Pope, MD, professor of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics at Western Bone and Joint Institute in Ontario, Canada, shares three important points from her session on pulmonary arterial hypertension and interstitial lung disease in scleroderma.

Cancer Health, an online resource for patients with cancer, recognized Erin Kobetz, PhD, MPH, for her research on identifying and overcoming racial disparities in health care.