What Happened to Civil Discourse?
Joanne Conroy, MD and Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, M.P.H., FAAP This has been such a disheartening and soul crushing week. It began last Wednesday when a white man with a history of violence shot and killed two African-Americans at a Kentucky Kroger store following a failed attempt to barge into a black church. Mail bombs […]
NEJM Catalyst: Lead In: Women of Impact in Health Care on Advancing Equity in the Workplace
Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, MBA & Joanne Conroy, MD This article originally appeared on the NEJM Catalyst page. It was written by Women of Impact members Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA & Joanne Conroy, MD. Women of Impact Co-Authors include: Vineet Arora, Anne Beal, Chloe Bird, Ann Bonham, Kathy Buto, Lynne Chafetz, Deborah Chang, Ceci Connolly, Lisa David, […]
Congratulations! Karen Remley, Former AAP CEO, Joins de Beaumont Foundation as Senior Fellow
The de Beaumont Foundation announced on Aug. 1 that Karen Remley, MD, MBA, MPH, FAAP, has joined the Foundation as a Senior Fellow. Dr. Remley, who has more than 30 years of experience in public health and healthcare most recently served as CEO of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 67,000 practitioners dedicated to […]
A Call to Action: We Need More Varsity Bosses! Maternity Leave – Hidden Path to Opportunity and Resilience
Tanisha Carino “The only thing you should say is: Congratulations!” That was the advice my boss gave me the first time I had an employee tell me they were going out on maternity leave. I was a young first time manager with no children and very little understanding of how I was going to make […]
Tackling the Sponsorship Gap for Women in Healthcare in the #MeToo Era
Vinny Arora, MD I was recently in a room full of powerful women in healthcare (suffering from imposter syndrome myself) for the Women of Impact annual meeting. There was one comment that stuck out to me that I had only heard in passing but not actively voiced in a meeting. Is the #MeToo movement going to result […]
Want healthier communities? Address social factors
Ceci Connolly To tackle the social determinants of health, Healthy People 2020 charges us with working collaboratively across sectors to address the unique needs of our communities. Public health agencies and community-based organizations have powerful partners in health plans and providers to achieve success. Ceci Connolly, president and CEO of the nonprofit Alliance of Community Health Plans, […]
Making the Voices of Female Trainees Heard
Darilyn Moyer, MD From the American College of Physicians, Annals of Internal Medicine Recently, we were surprised to uncover an unrecognized gender disparity in our own presumably forward-thinking residency program. Women account for 47% of our internal medicine residency class (similar to the national average) and more than 50% of program leadership. Our graduates frequently […]
Opinion: Community Partnerships Are at the Heart of Our Nation’s Opioid Response
Ceci Connolly This post originally appeared on The Morning Consult and is an opinion piece by Woman of Impact member, Ceci Connolly, P resident and CEO of the nonprofit Alliance of Community Health Plans, a national consortium of 22 nonprofit health organizations.—————— While Congress considers dozens of bills to bring much-needed resources to our nation’s opioid crisis, […]
25th Princeton Conference Shows How Employers are Getting Active, Demanding Healthcare Value
Kate Dickerson Women of Impact Dr. Karen Feinstein and Dr. Vivian Lee recently shared a stage at the Princeton Conference. The Princeton Conference annually convenes leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss and debate pressing healthcare issues during an invitation-only event. Through interactive panels and presentations, attendees talk economics and policy across disciplines and party lines. JHF is a […]
Congrats to Woman of Impact, Dr. Bernadette Melnyk! AACN Honors Ohio State’s Melnyk for Her Work Advocating for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Kate Dickerson The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) honors Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, with a 2018 AACN Pioneering Spirit Award. This AACN Visionary Leadership Award recognizes significant contributions that influence high-acuity and critical care nursing and relate to the association’s mission, vision and values. The presentation will occur during […]