The conference will be at the Russell Sage campus, but you can livestream in for free starting at 11 am EST:

youtube.com/@RussellSageCo… via Russell Sage College

Join us this Friday, April 12, for a conference on gender bias in medicine & how artists + activists can help move women's health forward.

Featuring the brilliant voices of: Sophia Wallace 🦚 Medical Herstory Wendy Kline Maria Uloko MD

Hosted by the Women's Institute at Russell Sage College

How medical professionalism harms residents of color — and everyone in medicine who falls outside the norm (white, male, elite):

nytimes.com/2024/03/19/hea… via The New York Times NYT Science

With insights from Adaira Landry, MD MEd, Joel Bervell, Londyn Robinson, MD #MedEd

NYT Article by Rachel E. Gross deciphering the modern origin of term 'medical professionalism'. She interviewed MANY people for article, including ACGME higher-ups and current students and residents.

Proud to be Dr. Powell's mentee and also to be quoted.

nytimes.com/2024/03/19/hea…

Honored to have been featured in this The New York Times article about how medical professionalism can harm residents of color. Thank you to Rachel E. Gross for the incredibly well written article!!

The origin story of medical professionalism: the word that has come to mean everything and nothing

Learning more about the vagina, clitoris, and uterus isn’t just a women’s issue, explains science journalist Rachel E. Gross. “It’s a human health issue”. More on what’s left to be discovered about these under-researched organs: bit.ly/434PaOl

For some of the most thorough reporting on this issue, read Usha Lee McFarling's 2022 series on the ways Black residents are disproportionately disciplined and pushed out of medicine, for STAT:

statnews.com/2022/06/20/bla…

This is how 'professionalism' became one of medicine's most polarizing terms:

How medical professionalism harms residents of color — and everyone in medicine who falls outside the norm (white, male, elite):

nytimes.com/2024/03/19/hea… via The New York Times NYT Science

With insights from Adaira Landry, MD MEd, Joel Bervell, Londyn Robinson, MD #MedEd

Honored to be included ... and for my first book, partly written at MacDowell, to finally come home to roost in its fabled library! ✨📚✨

This #WomensHistoryMonth check out Sloan book 'Vagina Obscura' by Rachel E. Gross, which reveals a colossal gender disparity in Western medicine & academia regarding sexual health. Proud to do our part in destigmatizing an overlooked & often taboo subject: female genitalia

That's a wrap!

It was an honor to be asked to speak to ISSWSH on sexual health + the media alongside the iconic Dr. Lori Brotto.

Thank you to the thoughtful therapists, researchers, doctors, and patient advocates who shared your ideas and time with me.

Til soon!

#isswsh2024

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!

It was fantastic speaking to Vagina Obscura author Rachel E. Gross on the #shame and stigma associated with women’s #anatomy .

Listen to the episode: tinyurl.com/2evcnayb
Watch the interview: tinyurl.com/2wfam629
#booktwt #podcasting

What to expect when you're no longer expecting:
theatlantic.com/health/archive…

via The Atlantic

Facing an accidental pregnancy in your 40s is shockingly common, Rachel E. Gross writes. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Thank you to Rachel Gutman-Wei for letting me write this; Drs. Robin Noble, Lisa Perriera, and Rachel Pope for walking me through the perimenopausal wonderland; and the many women who shared their stories.

One more crazy fact I learned: in a few ways, pregnancy can actually be MORE likely in your 40s (because ovulation suddenly becomes more unpredictable and your body's normal rules no longer apply):

Bodies are a TRIP, y'all!

Why is unintended pregnancy so common in your 40s? The answer has to do with all the weirdness that comes with perimenopause, and (surprise!) the lack of information most of us get about this stage:

theatlantic.com/health/archive…

via The Atlantic