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, […]
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 […]