Women in Medicine
Medicine has a long-standing habit of telling women to wait their turn. The fix is not a pizza party. It’s naming how the game actually works — then changing who gets to be a somebody. I’ve made that case from three TEDx stages, at SAEM and the FemInEM Idea Exchange, and in the essays here — on hierarchy, on wellness culture as a substitute for change, on how a female physician stops being a nobody.
Start hereHow every female physician can go from being a nobody to a somebody — FemInEM
TEDxKids@SMU · 2020 — Embracing Your Inner Nerd
Why everyone should embrace their inner nerd.
In print
2021First Person: Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero? A Tribute to Heroes in MedicineEssayEmergency Medicine News2018How every female physician can go from being a nobody to a somebodyEssay — A field guide to going from unheard to unmissable in medicine.FemInEM2017Hierarchy and a Culture of WellnessEssay — Medicine’s hierarchy problem is a wellness problem.AWAEM Awareness (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine)
From the stage
Invest in You: Health, Beauty, & Wealth SummitD Magazine Summit · 2026Embracing Your Inner NerdTEDxKids@SMU · 2020
Coffee House Chats: Cultural competency issues in the workplaceACEP Scientific Assembly · 2019
Levels of Diversity and InclusionSAEM Annual Meeting · 2019
Panel: Challenges for Women in MedicineNEJM Resident 360 · 2018
AWAEM: Time management workshopSAEM Annual Meeting · 2017
Doctor Who? Doctor YOU: Maximize Your MediaFIX: FemInEM Idea Exchange · 2017Where Passion Meets Profession: An experience in a career in medicineNorthside Prep High School · 2017
She Who DaresDallas Women’s Foundation Luncheon · 2017Why Guns and Violence Will Be the Next Women’s MovementTEDxOakParkWomen · 2016A Story of NumbersTEDxUofIChicago · 2016Panel: MedicineNational Youth Leadership Forum · 2015
Panel: How to be a #medstudAMA Annual Meeting · 2014
Panel: Leadership SchoolAMA Annual Meeting · 2014
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