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  • Strategies for doing the right something in times of racial injustice

    Recent acts of police brutality leading to the murders of Black men and women across the country have raised the collective social consciousness about race in America on a global scale. For the first time in a long time, people seem to be genuinely concerned about how to eradicate racism and anti...
  • Women in Medicine Compendium

    In this compendium are pieces written by invited faculty speakers from the 2019 and 2020 WIMS. These thought leaders share their expertise on the evolution of empowerment that has occurred in medicine, and ways to achieve equity in healthcare utilizing evidence, science, and authentic leadership.
  • Math and Science Mavens: Female STEM Role Models

    Some of the most influential ideas in our modern era have come from the STEM disciplines, and women have been integral to transforming these ideas into world-changing discoveries and inventions.
  • WEBINAR: Microaggressions and Implicit Bias: Anti-Bias Strategies for Targets, Allies, And Bystanders

    Dr. Derald Sue discusses the key points from his most recent book, Microintervention Strategies: What Targets, Allies, Parents, Teachers, and Bystanders Can Do to Eliminate Racism.
  • Obituary: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman ever to serve on the high court, passed away on Sept. 19 from complications of metastatic cancer of the pancreas. She was 87.
  • The “Othering” of Disease: Xenophobia During Past Pandemics

    The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant issues that transcend medicine and health, illuminating a long history of racial fears and anxieties that have been a common framework through which people evaluate concerns around global viruses.
  • INFOGRAPHIC: Evaluating Workplace Equity in Scholarly Publishing

    A new study shows that scholarly publishers need to address a gap between the goals of their diversity, equity, and inclusion organizational policies and the lived experiences of people working in the industry
  • Obituary: John Lewis

    Many aspire to leave this world a better place than they found it. Only a few – like civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis – succeed.
  • How generational models influence gender diversity in university leadership

    There are many models used by different generations of women to describe their research leadership in higher education (HE), and each impacts their careers and career ambitions differently.
  • 9 things every health care leader should know about compensation

    Discussions about compensation, particularly when they are focused on disparities for women and other people who identify with one or more underrepresented groups, often elicit strong emotions from those involved.
  • Preface

    It is a strange time to be in medicine, and an even stranger time to be a woman in medicine. Our nation has been thrown into a pandemic for which we were unprepared where the majority of frontline essential workers are women.
  • Perfect prescription for inequity: The intersection of COVID-19 and the U.S. health care system

    The COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect prescription for exacerbation of current, and creation of new, inequities in our health care system. When we get to the other side, the pandemic will leave unprecedented devastation in its wake, including a disproportionate toll on the aged, those with preexisti...
  • Adapt leadership program format, content to address needs during COVID-19 pandemic

    What happens when an unprecedented global crisis impacts not only the delivery of a program such as Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®), but also potentially exacerbates the already vast gender disparities in medicine?
  • Build leadership capacity from within

    Given that I’ve worked as a business school professor teaching executives for the last 30 years, one might suppose I could make a list of qualities all leaders should demonstrate.
  • Contributors

  • Find your leadership style, communicate it well

    “I’m the doctor, of course I’m the leader!“ Who hasn’t heard that comment — or even thought it personally? The truth is we all have a leadership style even if we’ve never thought about it.
  • Acknowledgements

  • Cultivating intentional success: 5 key steppingstones

    Have you ever hungered for success? The best type of success, the kind that is based on intention and the process of working toward goals that you define for yourself, is usually enjoyed by women who have embraced certain skills.
  • Hack your brain to let the leader in you emerge

    Efforts to promote gender equity in medicine focus on training women in leadership and assertiveness skills. Once that inspiring conference ends and women return to the workplace, many of them experience a stress response and feel too uncomfortable to use the techniques they’ve learned.
  • Coronavirus: Calling on women in medicine to lead in place

    At the 2019 Women in Medicine (WIM) Summit held in Chicago, I delivered a breakout session encouraging women physicians to expand their leadership skills by actively participating in professional organizations that may not be traditional to their respective areas of specialty. The goal of my pres...