You Need a Walk-Up Song!
Joelle C. Borhart, MD Music is a part of my earliest memories. Growing up, my mom would play the same two cassette tapes as she drove my brothers, sister, and me to and from activities: Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Volume I and Volume II,…
Women Leaders in a Man’s House
Tsion Firew, MD Dr. Tsion Firew is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health Faculty at Columbia University and she also serves as an advisor to the Minister of Health of Ethiopia on Strategic Partnership and Emergency Care. She is an advocate for the…
Resilience in the Face of Sexual Harassment
Dr. Prisca Mary Kizito This is the final blog post of our FemInEM Forward series, featuring blog submissions from the The FIX19 International Attendee Scholarship. The post below is written by Dr. Prisca Mary Kizito (@prisca_kizito), an emergency medicine physician in Uganda. Dr. Kizito…
You Are More Powerful Than You Think
Hannah Janeway, MD Dr. Hannah Janeway is currently an International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership (IDHEAL) Fellow at UCLA. Her current work is focused on vulnerable populations at the US-Mexico border, utilizing healthcare as a mechanism for social justice, and educating healthcare providers on…
Bruh…that’s not okay: Intersectional Ally Behaviors
Anwar Osborne, MD Dr. Anwar Osborne is an associate professor of both internal medicine and emergency medicine at Emory University. He serves as an assistant program director for the EM residency. He is a national expert in observation medicine and has published multiple…
This is Not Your Grandmother’s Feminist Movement
Ashely Alker MD MSc Since the fall of 2017, there has been a change in New York City. If you are a New Yorker, you may have felt an influx of power surging every fall. More likely is that you noticed nothing unless you…
Diversity in Travel: What a Doctor Looks Like
Yvette McQueen, MD Yvette McQueen, MD is a global physician on a mission to education about health, travel wellness and disease prevention. She is an Emergency Medicine Physician and Travel Doctor, working as a physician across the US and the Caribbean. Dr. McQueen…
Living Apart Together
Andrea Austin, MD You can’t always get what you want, at least in the same city of as your partner. In the past two years, my friend and colleague and I, faced the proposition of our dream jobs. Both Nikki and I are…