{"id":442,"date":"2015-10-08T20:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=442"},"modified":"2015-11-12T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:04:20","slug":"how-dr-linda-brodsky-has-pulled-us-all-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2015\/10\/08\/how-dr-linda-brodsky-has-pulled-us-all-up\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dr. Linda Brodsky has pulled us all up"},"content":{"rendered":"
When we started working on FemInEM, we knew there were already all these great articles written for women (and men) in EM on leadership, work-life balance, clinical care and various other topics. \u00a0 We created a catalog of these pieces, and along with permission of the author, we sometimes re-purpose an article so that the original content can reach a larger audience.<\/p>\n
We wanted to publish a piece this week titled “Push Ups and Pull Ups- New Approaches to Leadership Development.” \u00a0This article was originally published in the AAWEP Newsletter in 2012. \u00a0We attempted to contact Dr. Linda Brodsky, an pediatric ENT surgeon, for permission since she was the article’s original author. \u00a0 Since Dr. Brodsky was an ENT, not an EM doctor, none of us on the editorial board knew her personally. \u00a0Unfortunately, we found out that Dr. Brodsky\u00a0passed away in 2014 at age 61. \u00a0We also discovered that she was a mentor and leader for all women in medicine who set the tone and space for communities like FemInEM years ahead of our time.<\/p>\n
Born May 25, 1952 in Long Island, New York, Linda graduated from Bryn Mawr College with honors in 1974 and then medical school at the Women\u2019s Medical College of Pennsylvania, now Drexel University. She completed her residency in Ear, Nose and Throat surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.<\/p>\n
Dr. Brodsky went\u00a0to Buffalo in 1983 to take a full-time position at Women & Children\u2019s Hospital, where she later became director of the Center for Pediatric Otolaryngology and Communication Disorders. \u00a0She was also a full-time faculty member in the University at Buffalo Medical School. \u00a0She published a number of award-winning papers and earned the title of Tenured Full Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine\u2013one of only 12 women to have achieved this ranking at the time. She authored or co-authored over 100 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and 27 book chapters. Her book on pediatric swallowing and feeding disorders, Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding: Assessment and Management, \u00a0is a classic in the field. \u00a0She was one of the few Buffalo-based members of the Triological Society, an elite organization that only admits the most academically accomplished ENT surgeons.<\/p>\n
Linda introduced the \u201cBrodsky Classification\u201d of tonsillar disease, a diagnostic tool used around the world. She was Primary Investigator or Co-Investigator in over 2\u00a0million dollars of industry and federally funded research. She served on the editorial boards of several pediatric ENT journals, including The International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology<\/i>, Acta Otolaryngologica<\/i> and The Journal of Respiratory Diseases<\/i>. \u00a0She was an invited keynote speaker and visiting professor at many national meetings and academic departments of otolaryngology. She served on the boards of the ENT section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children (SENTAC) and the American Society for Pediatric Otolaryngology.<\/p>\n