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 […]
American College of Physicians Outlines Steps to Achieve Gender Equity
Darilyn Moyer, MD Despite some gains, gender inequity still exists in the physician workforce, a new position paper by the American College of Physicians (ACP) finds, and is urging all organizations to work toward the elimination of compensation inequity and help eliminate obstacles to female advancement. The position paper, Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation […]
Make Match Day a Movement Toward Health Citizenship
Tanisha Carino, PhD For thousands of U.S. medical students, March 16 is the day they will find out where their next steps will be in their pursuit of saving lives. These new clinical leaders are entering a quickly transforming world. Big data and artificial intelligence are on the cusp of accelerating scientific advancement. Society has […]