🌟 #ScrubsNHeels24 Panel today: How to advocate for change

Mariam Naveed, MD
💎Advocate for others as well as yourself
💎People want to be heard & their struggles validated
💎When you report a problem, offer also potential solutions

#StrongerTogether

So grateful to Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF and Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF for their incredible support! ❤️

Comprehensive family leave is a key component to improving physician wellbeing and gender equity. Excited to learn about so much being done for workforce equity across institutions at @scrubsNHeels !

Thank you Lauren Feld for your amazing work in #parentalleave 👏🏽👏🏽

Some staggering stats:
🚨 IM residents list concerns re: having a family as reason to not go into GI
🚨⬆️ overnight call and ⬆️ time standing in 3rd trimester correlated with 👎🏽 impact on pregnancy

This is how change is made. Put women in charge and give them authority to create supportive cultures, including workplace flexibility! #ScrubsNHeels24

Lauren Feld at Scrubs & Heels highlighting the impact of pregnancy on women Gastroenterologists.

👉 avoiding going into GI for fear on incompatibility
👉 delay fertility
👉 increased adverse affects of birth
👉 decreased career advancement
👉 decreased promotion and💰

Outstanding talk by the incredible Lauren Feld on Parental Leave and “we MUST do better” !

Scrubs & Heels #LeadershipSumit

A pertinent reminder from Rina Sanghavi,MD,MBA that federal laws prohibit pay disparities based on gender.

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Busting the myth of meritocracy

Your chief will not just magically know all of your accomplishments and barriers, and then spontaneously offer you promotion

Linda Ánh Vân Nguyễn MD and Jessica R Allegretti describe how to prepare for your annual progress meetings!

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When a 10-minute break includes some of the most amazing conversations 🥰

Here's to bringing gender equity solutions from one institution to another (to every one!)

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Great talk by Jessica R Allegretti, MD, MPH, FACG, AGAF on specifically what to negotiate for, and when.

'Every annual progress meeting with your chief is an opportunity to ask for something.'

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When Linda Ánh Vân Nguyễn MD realized the impossibility of balancing a busy clinical & academic career w childcare, she negotiated for a flexible clinical schedule.

Then she scaled it to the entire division in her leadership role!

👏 put 👏 more 👏 women 👏 in 👏charge👏

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A joyous start to Scrubs & Heels 2024 - excited for a great day of growth!
Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF

Maternal mortality rates continue to worsen every year, with burden disproportionately borne by Black women. Addressing this is every doctor's responsibility.

Dr Amutah-Onukagha Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha with inspiring call to action UMass Chan Medical School Inaugural Health Equity Distinguished Lecture

Click the link below for a video of our discussion on parental leave and workplace bias in hepatology

It was incredible to have my former Chief Rotonya Carr and current collaborator #NicoleAlvey as the fantastic moderators

Thank you Liver/Intestinal Community of Practice - AST !

myast.org/education/asta…

If we mistreat & dehumanize young doctors--essentially teaching them that human life is not of value--they may learn to dehumanize patients.

Not only do our patients deserve our respect and kindness, so do our learners: our students, residents, and fellows.

The year is 2024 & Toyota is now testing seatbelt safety for pregnant women. Toyota should be commended, but couldn't we have had this testing a century earlier? In the mid 1930's US physicians began testing lap belts & urged their use in all cars.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/01/03/toy…

New research by Morgan S. Levy (she/her) qiang_zhang Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD showed medical students and physicians experience a multitude of barriers to family building, including:

🚨Cultural
🚨Organizational
🚨Interpersonal
🚨Individual

Read more 👇
bit.ly/48Dva74

Please read the quotes in this🧵and think carefully about the messages - implicit and explicit - you are giving trainees about pregnancy & childrearing.

Thank you Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD for leading this important work, & thanks Amy Oxentenko MD for sending to me!

We've got work to do.

There is an urgent need for more innovation to improve women's health & close gender gaps in research and science.

Yet, there is no coordinated agenda to target global efforts & galvanize investment in women's health—until now. Check out this new report:
orwh.od.nih.gov/sites/orwh/fil…

Two patients - different age and gender - but same symptoms after COVID.
One given full workup and neurologic diagnosis, the other told they have anxiety without any workup.

Guess which gender was given the full workup?