Women of Impact Statement on Racial Injustice and Solidarity
As women executives that represent all sectors of the healthcare industry, the Women of Impact stand together with our Black community in shock, mourning, and outrage of the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Women of Impact believe Black Lives Matter. These acts of […]
Women of Impact: Public Health Cohort Gathers in Pittsburgh
Sarah Morgan Two dozen members of the newly established Women of Impact Public Health Cohort gathered in Pittsburgh last month to reflect and recharge. Meeting August 7-9 at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation’s airy 26th floor conference space, the women participated in an intensive leadership development training presented by the de Beaumont Foundation, which advances policy and […]
#WOMENatHLTH : Join Women of Impact at HLTH 2019! (& Discounted Registration!)
Kate Dickerson Join Women of Impact at the 2019 HLTH | Create Health’s Future conference from October 27-30 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas! HLTH (pronounced “health”) is a one-of-a-kind ecosystem event for the health industry, and it’s on a mission to bring together 5,000+ senior leaders to solve the most pressing problems facing healthcare today and […]
Pregnancy-Related Deaths Reflect How Implicit Bias Harms Women. We Need To Fix That.
Laurie Zephyrin, MD, MPH, MBA This article originally appeared on STAT News: reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine. Laurie Zephyrin, M.D., is the vice president for health care delivery system reform at The Commonwealth Fund, a member of Women of Impact, and a WHAMglobal Board Member. I have had babies, delivered other women’s babies, and worked in a […]
New Research Shows How Payer-Provider Partnerships Can Accelerate Adoption of Evidence-Based Care
Ceci Connolly, BA & Connie Hwang, MD, MPH Article in the NEJM Catalyst by Ceci Connolly, BA & Connie Hwang, MD, MPH In an effort to accelerate the delivery of medical knowledge and the adoption of evidence-based practices at the point of care, the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) launched a project exploring the role of health plans […]
Assuring Gender Safety and Equity in Health Care: The Time for Action Is Now
Lynn E. Fiellin, MD & Darilyn V. Moyer, MD This article appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine in the American College of Physicians (ACP) TIME’S UP, a national effort to ensure workplace safety and equity, was launched in 2018 in response to allegations of sexual harassment and assault by persons in the entertainment industry and propelled […]
Living Into Your Legacy
Vinny Arora, MD This article originally appeared on the Society of Hospital Medicine’s The Hospitalist. —————— The word legacy has been synonymous with death to me. When so and so dies, we discuss their legacy. I had a powerful experience that changed my mind on this word that is befitting for this Legacies column. Seven years […]
Reflections on Leadership
Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP I was recently honored to be part of a panel of leaders in child health at the 2019 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Making Our Mark: Pediatricians, Leadership, and Impact on Child Health. When my colleague and post-doc cohort alumnus from UCSF, Elena Fuentes Afflick reached out I was thrilled. She […]
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, […]