Lauren Feld
@LaurenFeldMD
Assistant Professor of Hepatology & Gastroenterology @UMassGI | Passionate about workforce equity, medical ethics and women's health in liver disease. She/her.
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21-03-2015 04:48:21
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🌟 #ScrubsNHeels24 Panel today: How to advocate for change
Mariam Naveed, MD
💎Advocate for others as well as yourself
💎People want to be heard & their struggles validated
💎When you report a problem, offer also potential solutions
#StrongerTogether
So grateful to Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF and Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF for their incredible support! ❤️
Comprehensive family leave is a key component to improving physician wellbeing and gender equity. Excited to learn about so much being done for workforce equity across institutions at @scrubsNHeels !
Thank you Lauren Feld for your amazing work in #parentalleave 👏🏽👏🏽
Some staggering stats:
🚨 IM residents list concerns re: having a family as reason to not go into GI
🚨⬆️ overnight call and ⬆️ time standing in 3rd trimester correlated with 👎🏽 impact on pregnancy
This is how change is made. Put women in charge and give them authority to create supportive cultures, including workplace flexibility! #ScrubsNHeels24
Lauren Feld at Scrubs & Heels highlighting the impact of pregnancy on women Gastroenterologists.
👉 avoiding going into GI for fear on incompatibility
👉 delay fertility
👉 increased adverse affects of birth
👉 decreased career advancement
👉 decreased promotion and💰
Outstanding talk by the incredible Lauren Feld on Parental Leave and “we MUST do better” !
Scrubs & Heels #LeadershipSumit
A pertinent reminder from Rina Sanghavi,MD,MBA that federal laws prohibit pay disparities based on gender.
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Busting the myth of meritocracy
Your chief will not just magically know all of your accomplishments and barriers, and then spontaneously offer you promotion
Linda Ánh Vân Nguyễn MD and Jessica R Allegretti describe how to prepare for your annual progress meetings!
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When a 10-minute break includes some of the most amazing conversations 🥰
Here's to bringing gender equity solutions from one institution to another (to every one!)
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Great talk by Jessica R Allegretti, MD, MPH, FACG, AGAF on specifically what to negotiate for, and when.
'Every annual progress meeting with your chief is an opportunity to ask for something.'
#ScrubsNHeels24 Scrubs & Heels
When Linda Ánh Vân Nguyễn MD realized the impossibility of balancing a busy clinical & academic career w childcare, she negotiated for a flexible clinical schedule.
Then she scaled it to the entire division in her leadership role!
👏 put 👏 more 👏 women 👏 in 👏charge👏
Scrubs & Heels
A joyous start to Scrubs & Heels 2024 - excited for a great day of growth!
Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF
Maternal mortality rates continue to worsen every year, with burden disproportionately borne by Black women. Addressing this is every doctor's responsibility.
Dr Amutah-Onukagha Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha with inspiring call to action UMass Chan Medical School Inaugural Health Equity Distinguished Lecture
Click the link below for a video of our discussion on parental leave and workplace bias in hepatology
It was incredible to have my former Chief Rotonya Carr and current collaborator #NicoleAlvey as the fantastic moderators
Thank you Liver/Intestinal Community of Practice - AST !
myast.org/education/asta…
The year is 2024 & Toyota is now testing seatbelt safety for pregnant women. Toyota should be commended, but couldn't we have had this testing a century earlier? In the mid 1930's US physicians began testing lap belts & urged their use in all cars.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/01/03/toy…
New research by Morgan S. Levy (she/her) qiang_zhang Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD showed medical students and physicians experience a multitude of barriers to family building, including:
🚨Cultural
🚨Organizational
🚨Interpersonal
🚨Individual
Read more 👇
bit.ly/48Dva74
Please read the quotes in this🧵and think carefully about the messages - implicit and explicit - you are giving trainees about pregnancy & childrearing.
Thank you Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD for leading this important work, & thanks Amy Oxentenko MD for sending to me!
We've got work to do.