Women of Impact, Delaware Valley Host: Dr. Elizabeth Leilani Lee
Kate Dickerson WOI: Delaware Valley are excited to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Leilani Lee, Division Health of Internal Medicine at Cooper Health who will discuss and host an interactive workshop on “Goal Setting and Time Management: How do I align my time with my goals?” Dr. Lee is a full time physician, mom of 2, and physician leader. Join […]
Women of Impact: Delaware Valley Host Dr. Vivian Lee
WOI: Delaware Valley are excited to welcome Dr. Vivian Lee to a virtual meeting, November 12th, at 7:30pm- 8:30pm to discuss her new book “The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone.” We will navigate the limitations of our current health system, as well as tangible solutions for health equity. We will […]
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 […]