Dr. Laura Roebuck Art Exhibit in San Francisco
AMWA member, Dr. Laura Roebuck will be featuring her abstract paintings in an art exhibit, October 5-31, at Lola’s Art Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Join AMWA members at the […]
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AWWA joins ARC Network for gender equity in STEM
Dr. Connie Newman (President) and Dr. Eliza Lo Chin (Executive Director) participated in the ARC (ADVANCE Resource Coordination) Network: A Stem Equity Braintrust inaugural stakeholder meeting, hosted by the Association […]
American Women’s Hospitals Service Receives $77,000 Bequest
AMWA’s American Women’s Hospitals Service Receives Generous $77,000 bequest from Dr. Mary Anngenette Noble (1890 – 1988) in memory of her mother, Dr. Anngenette Fowler-Noble (1861 – 1940).
September 17 – The First National Physician Suicide Awareness Day
AMWA Joins the Council of Residency Directors (CORD) to Highlight this Important Issue September 17, 2018 will be the first National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. The Council of Residency Directors […]
AMWA Speaks Out Against Gender Pay Inequity
A recent Dallas Medical Journal Article revealed glaring biases in perceptions of the gender pay gap in medicine which sparked a social media flurry and harsh rebuttal from women physician […]
AMWA Promotes Equity Quotient
Equity Quotient: A New Platform That Provides Data, Analytics, and Solutions for Workplace Equity EQ collects real-time data metrics from health care employees through an iOS or Android mobile application and […]
Want to Protect the Right to Abortion? Train More People to Perform Them
AMWA member, Dr. Jody Steinauer, had an Op Ed article in the New York Times. Dr. Steinauer was the UCSF medical school representative for AMWA in the mid-nineties. She then […]
American Women’s Hospitals Services’ Grants Update and Search for Volunteers
AWHS provides grants to overseas clinics and individuals working on projects abroad and in the US that address the healthcare needs of underserved people, especially women and children. Dr. Laura […]
Walk with a Doc Event in Lake County, Illinois
Women and families came to the YWCA of Lake County in Gurnee, IL to take part in the inaugural Lake County chapter of Walk With A Doc. Dr. Josephine Nguyen […]
AMWA Op-Ed: Opioids Do Discriminate: Help Women Avoid the Dangers of Opioid Addiction
On August 28th, The Hill published an op-ed written by Drs. Connie Newman and Kim Templeton, on opioid addiction in women, emphasizing how sex differences in pain perception and response […]