Top 10 career advice that’s served me well as a #womeninmedicine

1️⃣: Build your career outside your institution.

Took this to heart when I first heard it year 3 as attending. Following it has paid for itself 10 fold.

Thank you Crystal Cené, MD, MPH for an impactful Wake Forest Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds talk re: Strategies for Advancing Health Equity in Academic Medicine and for the reminder that #HealthInequities impact ALL. #HealthEquityIsOurTrueNorth
#OnwardandUpward

Attend the SPA Spotlight Series 'Careers in Pediatric Anesthesiology': The timing of fellowship training during major life events and a thriving job market.
Scan the QR code or tap this link to register: ow.ly/1pLl50RhrLM
#PedsAnes #AnesthesiaEducation #FellowshipTraining

Thank you SPPM for inviting us to talk about branding! #SPPM2024 Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine SPA SPA WELI Women in Anesthesiology WomenInCTAnes SOAP ASRA Pain Medicine @FutuAnesRes WFSA Society for Education in Anesthesia Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) ASA® Anjana Kundu, MD Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists

States that have banned/restricted abortion have fewer maternity care providers, more maternity care “deserts,” higher rates of maternal mortality and infant death (esp. among women of color), and higher overall death rates for women of reproductive age.

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Only 2 weeks left to apply for the FAER NAM Fellowship!

Providing early-career #anesthesiology scholars the opportunity to engage in evidence-based health care or public health studies that improve care & access to care for patients, apply at FAER.org/NAM!

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Pioneering 100-mile 🚴🏿‍♀️-er Amber K Brooks, MD is the first physician in her family and has spent her career opposing #inequity both in comprehensive #pain mgmt and across the health system - developing curricula/prgms both for Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Wake Forest Anesthesiology.

#WIAWednesday

If you are a member of ASA® or Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists | SCA, you received an email with a link to an ERATS/ERACS survey. Fill it out TODAY! This will help us better understand current ERAS practices + educational gaps. 🙏 🫁🫀Wanda Popescu, MD Lavinia Kolarczyk MD, FASA WomenInCTAnes

Rep Wade, we’re friends, I like and respect you, but I fail to understand how a patient living in the coverage gap without health insurance, with their nose pressed against the window of any new hospital, will be able to substantively avail themselves of the care offered inside.

Big milestone - published my first paper as lead author! Collaborated with an amazing team led by Ryan D'Souza, MD 🇮🇳🇺🇸🇰🇼 to investigate the quality and reliability of acupuncture information for chronic pain on YouTube. Check out the full findings: doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S4…
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🎉Dr. Lejla Medzikovic, recipient of the 2024 AHA Career Development Award, researches if X-chromosome gene Biglycan influences sex differences in pulmonary hypertension. With 14 papers and the 2023 UCLA Chancellor’s Award, her work at Eghbali lab is making a significant impact.

“Nothing about us without us.” YASSSS! We need more of this in medicine. Representation matters. Research matters. WMed

#2, #3, #4, #5 and now #6! Who’s next?? #MadamePresident #ACC2024 American College of Cardiology Pamela S Douglas Athena Poppas, MD FACC Dipti Itchhaporia, M.D., MACC , FAHA, FESC Cathie Biga

Race- and Ethnicity-Based Clinical Algorithms: Implications ... : Anesthesia & Analgesia journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana… Mayo Clinic Department of Anesthesiology Anesthesia&Analgesia Ebony Jade Hilton, MD Modele Ogunniyi, MD, MPH Sharonne Hayes MD Dr. Debra Furr-Holden

~350 registrants so far!! If you’re unable to make it, the event will be recorded and posted to the ASA website. See you tonight! 🤩 #anesthesiology #match2025

This is just the tip of the iceberg! About time that Anesthesiology becomes more inclusive as a specialty!! Academic Anesthesia is at risk of becoming obsolete if injustice and inequality are not addressed!!

Extremely proud of V R Clark, MD 👏👏

Bravo LEJLA MEDZIKOVIC and Dr. Mansoureh Eghbali!!! 👏👏 #WomenInSTEM

Thank you for sharing your experiences carrying a pregnancy as a surgical resident 🤰🏽There is so much infrastructural and cultural change that needs to happen. You are fighting the good fight ❤️👏 #WomeninMedicine

I wish I could say that being a pregnant surgical resident was fine. But that wouldn’t be the whole story. And if we don’t share the whole story, how will things continue to improve?

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