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Chair, Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Committee on Women in Medicine
President & CEO of The Dimock Center
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Chair, OBGYN Dept, BIDMC
Associate, Dept of OBGYN, Emory
Gynecologist, Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Founder, Academic Women for Equality Now
Associate Professor of Surgery, Trauma & Critical Care, Northwestern
Director of Womens Health Services, Florida Medical Center and Founder, Elite Obstetrics & Gynecology
President of the American Medical Women’s Association
Member, Governing Council, Women's Physician Section, Delegate to the AMA
President, American Medical Women’s Association 2015-2016 Executive Director, IU National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, Cheif Physician Executive Eskenazi Women's Center of Excellence
Executive Director, International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics
2014-15 National President of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
CEO Cocoon Biotech
Director, Women in Medicine & Science at the AAMC
Vice President of Medical Affairs, Psychiatry, Seton Healthcare Family
Physician Development Coach, Lanteri Coaching and Communication
4th Year Med Student at Harvard Med School
Immediate Past Chair, Association of Women Surgeons National Student Committee
M3 OUWB School of Medicine, AMWA National Student Treasurer
Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Photo from AAMC State of Women in Academic Medicine, 2013-2014.
This is part 1 of a 6 part series featuring women physicians.
The share of medical degrees earned by women increased from 5% in 1952 to 48% in 2011. Despite this, data continues to show that women hold fewer leadership roles.
The percentage of women medical school faculty has increased from 26% in 1997 to 37% in 2012. However, women make up only 20% of full professors. In 2007, 14 of 124 medical school deans were women. Deans are usually chosen from medical department chairs, but in 2007, only 20 women were medical department chairs.
More recently, the article, "Subspecialty and Gender of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty in Department-Based Leadership Roles," published in February 2015, highlighted that leadership disparities still exist. In obstetrics and gynecology departmental administrative leadership roles, women comprised 20.4% of chairs, 36.1% of vice chairs, and 29.6% of division directors.
This forum seeks to hear from women physicians about their real world experiences, explore why these leadership discrepancies exist, seek solutions to the problem, and give advice to young women physicians and students about how to proceed with their careers.
The NEJM CareerCenter is your trusted source for physician career resources and the latest physician job openings in the United States.
In a continuing effort to provide valuable resources, we’ve curated physicians with special career expertise and experience for the NEJM CareerCenter Conversations series. In conjunction with Medstro, we are excited to start a dialogue on career issues that impact the modern day physician.
For this special series spotlighting women physicians, the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) joins us to lead the discussion on career issues that women in medicine face today.
Regardless of where you are in your career, we hope these topics spark productive and educational discussions.
Chair, Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Committee on Women in Medicine
President & CEO of The Dimock Center
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Chair, OBGYN Dept, BIDMC
Associate, Dept of OBGYN, Emory
Gynecologist, Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Founder, Academic Women for Equality Now
Associate Professor of Surgery, Trauma & Critical Care, Northwestern
Director of Womens Health Services, Florida Medical Center and Founder, Elite Obstetrics & Gynecology
President of the American Medical Women’s Association
Member, Governing Council, Women's Physician Section, Delegate to the AMA
President, American Medical Women’s Association 2015-2016 Executive Director, IU National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, Cheif Physician Executive Eskenazi Women's Center of Excellence
Executive Director, International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics
2014-15 National President of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
CEO Cocoon Biotech
Director, Women in Medicine & Science at the AAMC
Vice President of Medical Affairs, Psychiatry, Seton Healthcare Family
Physician Development Coach, Lanteri Coaching and Communication
4th Year Med Student at Harvard Med School
Immediate Past Chair, Association of Women Surgeons National Student Committee
M3 OUWB School of Medicine, AMWA National Student Treasurer
Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health