Lilly Marks: Vice President for Health Affairs, University of Colorado, AAMC Board of Directors Lilly Marks stands out. She is one of those speakers you remember. So I was not surprised when Dara Kass wrote me: Would you consider writing a piece…
As high achieving professionals, we have been hardwired with a thirst for improvement and a results-oriented approach to life. In all aspects of our lives we have pushed ourselves to work harder and demanded that we are better. I believe…
For this piece we interviewed Dr. Stella Dao, the visionary and first named inventor of Freemie, the hands free and concealable pumping system. Freemie allows you to pump “anytime, anywhere and around anyone”. Stella was a working FemInEM when she first…
The issue of gender equity in academic medicine has been explored consistently over the past few years. We know that half of accepted and matriculating medical students are female, but the numbers plummet as physicians become more senior. Data from…
Ask me to describe myself; my first answers are very typical: I am a physician. I am a wife. I am also a patient and a mother of children with a rare congenital syndrome. As a result of the last…
(Editors’ Note) This is the first in a series of highlighting FemInEMs who are starting small businesses while being EM docs. Let us know if you have any others FemInEMs we can highlight!) Please describe your website Swap&Snooze is a…
The first woman physician in the United States graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1849. Since then, according to the American Association for Medical Colleges (AAMC), the number of women entering medical school has continued to increase, with over 48,000…
It seems these days that there is no shortage of physicians out there, in the public interfacing with anyone with open ears. Notable “doctor/authors” such as Dr. Oliver Sacks, Dr. Louise Aronson and Dr. Danielle Ofri have used fiction and…
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