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Women now account for an increasingly large percentage of medical school students and practicing physicians, yet there is still a scarcity of research on how gender-related differences can affect clinician […]
The American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) installed Roberta E. Gebhard, DO as President and Nicole P. Sandhu, MD, PhD as President-Elect at its meeting on March 30, 2019. In addition, […]
Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer (GIAHC) has partnered with Dr. Patricia Garcia, former health minister of Peru and Cayetano Heredia University on the Hope Project. They have recently […]
AMWA joined the Voices for Non-Opioid Choices Coalition Launch Program on May 16, 2019, in Washington, DC. The coalition “is a nonpartisan coalition dedicated to preventing opioid addiction before it […]
AMWA joined the Spring 2019 convening of the BOlder Women’s Health Coalition on May 14, 2019 which brought together 26 groups, including associations, federal agencies, industry leaders, and more. The […]
May 19, 2019 American Medical Women’s Association Strongly Opposes Alabama Abortion Ban The American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) strongly opposes the recent law in Alabama that in essence bans abortion, […]
A sex and age discrimination lawsuit was filed on 4/26/19 against Mount Sinai Health System Inc. and leadership within the School of Medicine and the Arnhold Institute for Global Health. […]
In 2018, the NIH issued a statement about their commitment to address sexual harassment wherever NIH-funded activities take place. This action was prompted by the growing reports of sexual harassment incidents and […]
The Human to Mars Summit was held May 14-16 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington DC. The 3-day packed agenda included discussions on technologies to enable Mars […]
AMWA introduces a new series “B School” for Docs. Many physicians eventually find themselves in leadership roles lacking some tools that they may have learned if they went to Business […]