Northwestern Women in Medicine: Leading the Way

Women physicians face unique challenges and obstacles throughout their professional careers. These challenges may affect leadership development and opportunities for women in medicine resulting in a gender gap in the governance of academic medical centers. Women physicians currently lack a conference or forum for discussing strategies to achieve equality in the workplace, wellness and work life balance, mentorship and career development. The 3nd annual Northwestern Women in Medicine conference will help to identify the obstacles that contribute to gender inequity and will start the discourse to bridging it.

We will shed light on gender disparities and then share experiences and tools to overcome the barriers that exist in medicine for female physicians so as to empower and create a network to lean upon.

Northwestern Feinberg Pavilion, 3rd Floor Conference Room A

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Course Directors

Sarah Friedewald, MD, FSBI

Division Chief of Breast and Women's Imaging

Director of the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center

Dr. Friedewald received her medical degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. After a surgical internship, she attended the diagnostic radiology residency program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She subsequently completed a fellowship in women's imaging at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Friedewald was the first author of a landmark JAMA paper evaluating the performance of digital breast tomosynthesis and has taught many training courses on this topic. She is a clinical image reviewer for the American College of Radiology's Mammography and Breast Ultrasound Accreditation Programs. She has also participated in other breast specific committees including the Scientific Program Committee for the Radiological Society of North America.

Cybele Ghossein, MD

Vice Chair for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Department of Medicine

Professor of Medicine

Cybele Ghossein MD is a practicing nephrologist and the Associate Chief of Clinical Operation in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. Prior to her role as Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Dr. Ghossein was the medical director of the medical subspecialties ambulatory practice. Dr. Ghossein has provided clinical leadership for the last 20 years establishing an active CRRT program, a CKD clinic and an adolescent to adult transition program. She is the acting treasurer for Women in Nephrology as well as on the editorial board for KSAP.

Angira Patel, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACC, FASE

Pediatric Cardiologist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Director, McGaw Bioethics Clinical Scholars Program

Director, Advanced Cardiac Non-Invasive Imaging Fellowship

Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Cardiology and Medical Education

Dr. Patel is a Pediatric Cardiologist with subspecialized training in Cardiac Imaging. Her research interests lie at the intersection of pediatric and fetal cardiology and clinical medical ethics. She explores the societal, ethical and legal implications of emerging technology and intervention as it relates to the medical management and shared decision making in patients with congenital heart disease. She also mentors medical students, directs a program that teaches bioethics to medical trainees and is involved in faculty development.

Steering Committee

Joan Anzia, MD

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education

Mercedes Carnethon, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair of Preventive Medicine

Aruna Ganju, MD

Manjot Gill, MD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Director of Vitreoretinal Fellowships program, Department of Ophthalmology

Blair Golden, MD

Amy Halverson, MD

Professor of Surgery

Interim Vice-Chair of Education in the Department of Surgery

Z. Leah Harris, MD

Krehbiel Professorship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Head of the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine

Allison Kessler, MD, MSc

Attending Physician; Spinal Cord Injury Innovation Center Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Stephanie Kielb, MD

Daniela Ladner, MD

Bonnie Martin-Harris, PhD

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor in the Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Communication

Danielle M McCarthy, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Tacoma McKnight, MD

Ritu Nayar, MD

Professor of Pathology and Medical Education

Vice Chair of Pathology

Director of Cytopathology

Vera Rigolin, MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

Medical Director, Echocardiography Laboratory at NMH

Co-director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship Program

Cynthia Rigsby, MD

Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics

Division Head, Body Imaging

Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medical Imaging at Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Nancy Sassower, MD

Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine

Saadia Sherwani, MD

Dinee Simpson, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation

Farzaneh Sorond, MD, PhD

Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Education, Chief of Stroke and Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology

Professor of Neurology

Linda Suleiman, MD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Don't forget to live tweet the event with the hashtag #WIM19, and follow us on Twitter @NU_IntMed!

Agenda

6:45 am	Breakfast, Registration, Exhibits
7:15 am	Welcome	Dean Eric Neilson, MD
7:20 am	Introduction	Course Directors: Sarah Friedewald, MD Cybele Ghossein, MD Angira Patel, MD, MPH
7:30 am	The Power of Gender Diversity in Business and in Medicine	Stephanie Spottswood, MD, MPH Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Professor of Pediatrics Chief, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine Associate Vice Chair for Diversity
8:20 am	State of Women in Medicine	Teresa K Woodruff, PhD Associate Provost for Graduate Education Dean of The Graduate School Vice Chair for Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Director, Women’s Health Research Institute Chief of Reproductive Biology Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McCormick School of Engineering, Medical Social Sciences and Medicine (Endocrinology)
9:15 am	Leadership: A Personal Narrative	Karin Muraszko, MD, FACS Chair and Julian T. Hoff, M.D. Professor, Neurological Surgery Professor, Neurological Surgery Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases Professor, Plastic Surgery
10:00 am	Refreshment Break and Exhibits
10:15 am	PANEL Overcoming Challenges on Your Way to Leadership	Moderator: Melissa Simon, MD Panel: 1. Karin Murasko, MD, FACS 2. Dinee Simpson, MD 3. Jennifer Trainor, MD 4. Patricia Vassallo, MD
11:15 pm	The Unscripted Life: Using Improvisational Theater Techniques to Help Women in Medicine Claim Power, Collaborate and Communicate	Katie Watson, JD
12:00-1:00pm	Networking Lunch
1:00 pm	Resilience: Maximizing Leadership Impact and Wellbeing	Michelle Buck, PhD Executive Education Clinical Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
1:55 pm	PANEL How to Negotiate for Yourself: When to Say Yes and When to Say No	Moderator: Diane Wayne, MD Panel: 1. Stephanie Spottswood, MD, MPH 2. Leah Harris, MD 3. Lacy Knight, MD 4. Mercedes Carnethon, PhD
2:40 pm	Refreshment Break and Exhibits
3:00 pm	PANEL Advocacy & Leadership Outside of Traditional Work Environment	Moderator: Daniel Evans, MD Panel: 1. Divya Mallampati, MD – Ob-Gyne fellow 2. Katherine Tynus, MD 3. Mamta Swaroop, MD 4. Karen Sheehan, MD
3:50 pm	Building a Culture of Allyship and Sponsorship	Clyde W Yancy, MD, MSc
4:30pm	Wrap-up	Course Directors

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