{"id":18740,"date":"2019-06-07T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=18740"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:54:36","slug":"awaem-anniversary-interviews-10-years-of-progress-melissa-parsons-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2019\/06\/07\/awaem-anniversary-interviews-10-years-of-progress-melissa-parsons-md\/","title":{"rendered":"AWAEM Anniversary Interviews: 10 Years of Progress \u2013 Melissa Parsons, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, we speak with Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/feminem.org\/speaker\/melissaparsons-md\/\">Melissa Parsons<\/a>, an&nbsp;Assistant Professor at University\nof&nbsp;Florida, about getting involved in AWAEM early and how she turned\nlemons into lemonade by transforming her personal journey with infertility into\na career niche. <em>Please note, this interview was recorded prior to FIX18 and\nincludes excited references to that conference!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tell me a little bit\nabout where you are right now in your career.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I would be considered early\ncareer, in my fourth year of residency. I&#8217;m currently serving as the assistant\nresidency director at the University of Florida College of Medicine in\nJacksonville, Florida. Then in addition to that, I previously served as\nassistant medical director of a community emergency department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I initially\nwent and worked at our community center and took over as the assistant medical\ndirector there and then slowly transitioned back into a more academic role. I took\nover as assistant program director. At one point, I was wearing both hats, and\nnow have turned over to being full-time assistant program director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What motivated you to\nget involved with AWAEM initially?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Michelle Lall really reached\nout to me and kind of pulled me in, roped me in to getting involved in the\nwellness committee last year. I started last year as just a member of the\nwellness committee. I started writing a little bit and really kind of got\ninvolved that way and then took over as one of the two chairs of the wellness\ncommittee this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How would you say that\nAWAEM has affected your career?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absolutely. You know, I think\nfirst of all, having a group of women as a whole, that you&#8217;re surrounded with\nand able to network with, has certainly kind of helped some of the things I&#8217;ve\nseen in my own career, that I found out were pretty normal across many women in\nemergency medicine. In addition to that, it gave me opportunities.&nbsp; I was able to kind of share interests with\npeople, then I got tagged for those things. So, in the last two months, I think\nI&#8217;ve been tagged for three to five AWAEM didactics for next year&#8217;s SAEM, just\nbecause people knew what my interests were and wanted to pull me in on them.\nThat really is the kind of the thing that AWAEM has brought to me &#8211; this other\ngroup of people that were happy to kind of help promote my career in different\nways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What motivated you to\nseek a leadership position? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I knew that Jeanette Wolfe ,\nwho was previously the Chair for the wellness committee, wanted to step down\nand was looking for somebody to take over. We always talk about how women don&#8217;t\nask, that women don&#8217;t really volunteer themselves or step up. They think that\nkind of hold themselves back until they are sure that they are ready. She asked\nand I said, &#8220;Oh sure, I&#8217;ll do it.&#8221; I had no idea what it entailed or\nif that was a good choice, but it was kind of my niche of wellness and women in\nmedicine, and it seemed like it made sense for me to tackle it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How has leadership in\nwomen\u2019s professional organizations impacted your opportunities for promotion?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I think between my involvement\nwith AWAEM and speaking at FIX this year has certainly become a niche. My FIX\ntalk is actually on infertility in female physicians, so that&#8217;s kind of niched\nabout them that is leading to research. It will hopefully help me in promotion\nin the future. Then I think the other way is that seeing how much women-focused\ngroups, research, networking we do have. I really realized that there was a\ntime for those of us once we kind of get out into practice but I didn&#8217;t see as\nmuch geared towards the younger generations, towards our med students and\ntowards our residents and really outreach there. So actually one of our other\nAWAEM members, and I created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shemd.org\/\">SheMD.org<\/a>, which is a group that is specifically trying to reach\nout to med students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#8217;s really great.\nCan you describe a particular experience that now helps you really reach out to\nthat younger co-part? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sure. I think for me, the\nbiggest thing was once I infertility, that&#8217;s kind of become my niche, but I\nrealized that, you know, coming right out of residency, and 31, being\npotentially too late for me, really speaking to that younger generation about\nhow they may not want to wait, that may not be best time. That really was what\nkind of pushed me towards outreach to that younger group. I mean, how do we\nshare, you know, the things that we learn and we&#8217;ve talked about now as faculty\nwith the women that our community hand us so that they don&#8217;t have to wait until\nthey become faculty to figure it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How do you anticipate\nthe professional needs of women in academic emergency medicine will change in\nthe next 10 years? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#8217;s a really good question.\nI think that we&#8217;ve kind of already done a pretty good job of saying we have a\nproblem and identifying, &#8220;Hey, there&#8217;s something different for us&#8221;,\nand starting the conversation. I think now the big push and hopefully the big\npush in the next 10 years will be how do we get more data so that we can create\nbetter policies? We&#8217;ve started doing that and it&#8217;s been super refreshing to see\nbut I think continuing to really try to get data numbers research that will\nhelp us advance our career but will also help us to be able to say this isn&#8217;t\njust something worth talking about but this is something we can really prove\nand show what we do from here to create a change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Can you describe a way\nthat you recall gender has affected your career development? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sure. I remember as a resident\nreally getting community-mixed signals as far as how I was always very\noutspoken and I was always pretty comfortable in my own skin and so of part of\nbeing overly confident, overly aggressive, overly assertive &#8211; I&#8217;d been getting\nthat feedback from some of my faculty and then, on the other hand, getting\npushed to make a decision because when I didn&#8217;t want to say, &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m sure\nit&#8217;s this.&#8221; I really got a lot of push back. Well, what do you want to do?\nBut then I also realized that with my nursing staff, I had to go out of my way\nto kind of play nice, in ways that I didn&#8217;t see as mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So actually\nas an intern, my program director nicknamed me the pelvic princess, because I\nthink I did more pelvic exams than anybody, but also cleaned the pelvic room,\nbecause we had a specific room at that time, like every single time that I used\nit, whereas a lot of the males weren&#8217;t ever having to do that. Somebody was\njust cleaning it for them. I was impatient maybe, but it was just something\nwhere I started to notice how I was having to do things a little bit\ndifferently than some of my colleagues, to make sure that the nurses were my\nfriends and wanted to help me to take care of the patient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What career\naccomplishment, thus far, or accomplishments, would you say that you&#8217;re most\nproud of, and I&#8217;m sure you have much more to go, but you&#8217;ve clearly\naccomplished a lot so far? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I think right now with FIX\ncoming up in the next two weeks, really been kind of developing my talk for\nthat. Getting through my talk will really be the most refreshing, or the\nbiggest award I suppose. But I think that having this, creating this\nopportunity of something in my life and creating opportunity to talk about it\nand hopefully to get some research and be able to actually kind of push that\nagenda a little bit. That&#8217;s kind of been my biggest success so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What advice would you\ngive a younger version of yourself or an AWAEM member at an earlier stage of her\ncareer?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Together, we&#8217;ve gotten both\nthere, instead of having to be kind of worked into a position. But really, just\ngoing out of my way to say, &#8220;Hey, how do I get involved from day one?\nInstead of waiting two or three years and then kind of feeling like I had to be\nready instead of somebody saying, &#8220;Hey, you&#8217;re going to sign up and you&#8217;re\ngoing to do this job.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>M. Lin:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Name three other AWAEM\nmembers who you think we should interview for this. Maybe one around your\nstage, one who&#8217;s more junior, and one who&#8217;s more senior. If they&#8217;re all the\nsame level, that&#8217;s okay too.&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Parsons:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absolutely. So Michelle Lall would\nbe my first choice. She&#8217;s our president. I&#8217;m assuming you guys have your own\npriority, but she definitely is the one who kind of pulled me in. Lexie Mannix\nis also on an AWAEM committee, and is my co-creator for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shemd.org\/\">SheMD.org<\/a>. She&#8217;s awesome. She&#8217;s early\ncareer. She is in her first year out of fellowship and is already doing awesome\nthings. Then Maria O&#8217;Rourke, who&#8217;s my wellness co-chair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Listen to the complete podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/feminem.org\/podcast\/awaem-anniversary-interviews-10-years-of-progress-melissa-parsons-md\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we speak with Dr Melissa Parsons, an&nbsp;Assistant Professor at University of&nbsp;Florida, about getting involved in AWAEM early and how she turned lemons into lemonade by transforming her personal journey with infertility into a career niche. 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