Women’s Health Week: May 11-May 17
National Women’s Health Week is just a few days away from May 11-May 17, 2014. I want to encourage all AMWA members and branches to make this week special for […]
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Focusing on Women with HIV
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Imane Sidibe, MSC, Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives at International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC). The organization recently joined HIV […]
Match Day
Congratulations to all the fourth years that matched! Have you ever been so anxious in anticipation of something that you couldn’t sit still and couldn’t focus on anything else? I […]
A Powerful Rx
Recently I had the pleasure of hearing Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy, speak at the meeting of the American Medical Women’s Association (check it out https://amwa-doc.org). He laughed […]
Successful Social Media Competition
This year’s Social Media Competition proved highly successful! The winner, Nikki Fregosi, posted entries on both Facebook and Instagram, which competed with 281 other social media entries that were submitted […]
Culture Matters: The Pivotal Role of Culture for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine
Culture Matters: The Pivotal Role of Culture for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine Acad Med. 2014;89:00–00. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD In this recently published paper by Alyssa Westring investigating the workplace […]
Primed for Perfection
A few weeks ago, my school hosted a lecture series that focused upon patient safety. One lecturer in particular truly caught my attention. He chose to highlight the fact that […]
Simple Reminders
Scrolling through the seemingly endless pages of the Daily Beast or the NY Times, we’re pounded in one way or another by humanity’s capacity for cruelty (Rebecca Ann Sedwick comes […]
US Biomedical Research: We Must Reverse a Decade of Neglect
US Biomedical Research: We Must Reverse a Decade of Neglect. As an HIV physician, I began my career early in the AIDS epidemic before effective antiviral medications existed. I held […]
V-Day
February marks the beginning of V-Season: a time when “The Vagina Monologues” are performed globally in colleges, communities, theaters, and even medical schools. A brief background: “The Vagina Monologues” is […]