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 […]