Melissa Simon
@DrMelissaSimon
OBGYN, health equity researcher, advocate, educator and mom of 4 @LurieCancer @NMGynecology, Director of @HealthEquityNU @chicagochec @career911mooc
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https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/chet/ 09-04-2015 12:42:44
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When you walk through Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital, you will now see a portrait of Tacoma McKnight, MD, the first Black female faculty member at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her work continues — and will never be forgotten. NM Obstetrics and Gynecology
Advancing health equity through community centered research - a Kolling Institute seminar with Melissa Simon whose primary research is aimed at promoting health equity and eliminating health disparities among low income, medically underserved women across the lifespan.
Sydney Health Literacy Lab
Melissa Simon, MD, MPH (Melissa Simon), shares #ThoughtLeadership on the #risks and #benefits of taking #supplements and #vitamins for patients who are #pregnant . scrippsnews.com/stories/report…
Proud to support Dr. Joanne Glenn and Tatiana Joyner Foundation reveal their stories of surviving and thriving with breast cancer! Lurie Cancer Center ChicagoCHEC Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET)
We unpack the implications. Joseph Ross Melissa Simon
Key takeaway: Clinicians are busy - it's tough for them to trust their own judgment over automated 'AI assistance'
This will move their diagnostic accuracy to that of the AI model - good or bad!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
So grateful for this opportunity! Hoping we can improve health equity and increase diversity enrollment in clinical trials. Thank you ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group @edithmitchellmd @drmelissasimon!
Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D. Heather McArthur, MD, MPH Dr. David Gerber Parkland Health UTSW Simmons Cancer Center @UTSWNews
Looking forward to presenting with and learning from co-panelists Laurie Zephyrin MD, Veronica Gillispie-Bell, Alina Salganicoff, Neel Shah, MD and Melissa Simon at today’s National Academy of Medicine session on maternal & repro health inequities #NAMMtg
I am looking forward to serving on this amazing National Academy of Medicine panel with Laurie Zephyrin, Jack Resneck MD , Alina Salganicoff, Neel Shah, MD and Melissa Simon . Nam.edu/AnnualMeeting2… #NAMMtg
The panel on addressing maternal and reproductive health with Laurie C. Zephyrin, Veronica Gillispie-Bell, Jack Resneck MD, Alina Salganicoff, Neel Shah, MD, and Melissa Simon is starting now! #NAMmtg
Proud of mi amiga Melissa Simon Northwestern and learning about disparities in pregnancy care National Academy of Medicine #NAMmtg #latinasinmedicine
Neel Shah, MD Maven Clinic 'What I learned there that I keep to this day is the community's voice is with the data. We bring that data, and we respect that data, to the table. And we allow that data to speak on behalf of the community and that's how we get the community voice into a lot of the innovation.'
A typical first prenatal visit is 30-45 minutes of a bucket of info dumped over the patient. Melissa Simon of Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine thinks it should just be about building trust. Ask the patient what can we do to support you and listen. #NAMmtg
Benefit vs Burden of MOC jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… physicians are already burdened with mandatory health stream modules, documentation, complex billing necessities, and the increasing obligation of obtaining prior authorization for almost every test, ABIM MOC adds an extra burden.
Celebrating National Latino Physician Day!
We need more for our familia, comunidad, abuelitxs, las proximas generaciones
6% of physicians are #Latinx
2.4% are #LatinasInMedicine
4.7% of hematologists/oncologists are #Latinos
#NationalLatinoPhysicianDay
#NationalLatinaPhysicianDay
Great crowd & ?s at #CHECForum2023 ChicagoCHEC. 🙏for leadership of ARCC Steering Committee members Tom Wilson (ChicagoCHEC community co-chair) & Candace Henley TheBlueHatFoundation (panel facilitator)
We are relentlessly focused on next gen talent! #NURTURE Northwestern Melissa Simon & Eric Perrault NUCATS Institute