Women in Gastroenterology

In the News

New York Times
PNAS 2012 Moss Racusin
Science-2012-Mervis-1592

• Objectives
• Committee Members
• Resources
• Reading
• Upcoming Events
  

Objectives

Under the umbrella of the Division of Gastroenterology, we are committed to:

• Recruitment of women to the field of Gastroenterology
• Maintaining women faculty in Gastroenterology
• Career development
• Educating and encouraging research in women's health issues in Gastroenterology

The committee is comprised of faculty from different tracks, including MDs and PhDs, fellows, research staff/students, and ad-hoc non-GI faculty.

Committee Members

Faten Aberra, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Medicine

• Subspecilaty Interests:  Clinical-Educator,
  • Clinical:  Imflammatory Bowel Disease, Gastrointestinal Infectious Desease, General Gastroenterology
  • Clinical Research:  Inflammatory Bowel Disease Epidemiology, Natural History and Therapy
• Location:  HUP
• Email:  faten.aberra@uphs.upenn.edu
• Contact:  215.348.8222

Kyong-Mi Chang, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; University of Pennsylvania and Director, GI/Hepatitis Clinic and GI Research; Philadelphia VAMC

• Subspecialty Interests:  Physician Scientist: Translational Research in Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease, Pathogenesis, Epidemiology/Natural History, Therapy, Viral Immunology, Immune Regulation
• Location:  Philadelphia VA Medical Center
• Email:  kmchang@mail.med.upenn.edu
• Contact:  215.823.5893, 215.823.5800 x 6730

Kathryn Hamilton, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Subspecialty Interests:  Intestinal Stem Cells, Colorectal Cancer
  
• Location: 655 Clinical Research Building
  
• Email:  haka@mail.med.upenn.edu
• Contact:  215.898.0157

John Lynch, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

• Subspecialty Interests:  General Gastroenterology, Colon Carcinogenesis, Barrett's Esophagus, Intestinal metaplasias
• Location:  650 Clinical Research Building
• Email:  lynchj@mail.med.upenn.edu
• Contact:  215.898.0155

Abby Olsen (MD/PhD Candidate)

• Subspecialty Interests:  Hepatic Stellate Cells in Liver Fibrosis
• Location:  672 Clinical Research Building
• Email:  olsena@mail.med.upenn.edu
• Contact:  215.573.1882

Resources

University of Pennsylvania Resources

• Focus
  • www.med.upenn.edu/focus
• University of Pennsylvania Human Resources
  • www.hr.upenn.edu/policy
• Graduate Medical Education Policies
  • www.uphs.upenn.edu/gme/policies

External Resources

• MomMD
  • www.mommd.com
• Changing the Face of Medicine:  Celebrating America's Women Physicians
  • www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine
• American Medical Women's Association
  • www.amwa-doc.org
• Association of American Medical Colleges, Women in Medicine
  • www.aamc.org/members/wim
• Society for Women's Health Research
  • www.womenshealthresearch.org
• ACG Women Committee Resources (need to be a memeber to access)
  • www.acg.gi.org
• AGA Career Advisory Program
  • www.gastro.org/wmspage
• Association for Women in Science
  • www.awis.org

Reading

Articles:

Women's Health:

• ACG, Pregnancy Monograph:  www.acg.gi.org/physicians/pdfs/PregnancyMonograph.pdf

Balancing Family and Work:

• Verlander G. Female Physicians.  Balancing Career and Family.  Academic Psychiatry; Dec 2004, (28): 331-336.
• Carnes M. Balancing Family and Career - Advice from the Teachers.  Annals of Internal Medicine; Oct 1996, 125(7): 618-620.

Avoiding Burnout:

• Spickard A, Gabbe SG, Christensen JF. Mid-Career Burnout in Generalist and Specialist Physicians. JAMA; Sept 25, 2002, 288(12): 1447-1450.
• Sotile WM, Sotile MO.  Beyond Physician Burnout:  Keys to Effective Emotional Management.  Journal of Medical Practice management;  May-June 2003, 18(6): 314-318.
• Robinson GE.  Stresses on Women Physicians. Consequences and Coping Techinques.  Depression and Anxiety;  2003, 17(3): 180-189.
• Linzer M, Visser M, Oort FJ, et al.  Predicting and Preventing Physician Burnout:  Results from the United States and the Netherlands.  The American Journal of Medicine;  Aug 2001, 111(2): 170-175.
• Gundersen L.  Physician Burnout.  Annals of Internal Medicine;  July 2001, 135(2): 145-148.
• Burnout and Suicidal Ideation Amoung U.S. Medical Students.  Annals of Internal Medicine; Sept 2008, 149(5): 334-341.

Women in Medicine, Science, Leadership and Equality in the Workplace:

• Untapped potential in the study of negotiation and gender inequality in organizations. Bowles and McGinn 2008
• NASPA Journal about women in higher education.  Compton and Palmer 2009 p167.
• Women and the labyrinth of leadership.   Eagly 2007.
• Resource highlights.  FINAL annotated contents.
• The doctor-nurse relationship:  How easy is it to be a female doctore co-operating with a femal nurse?  Gjerberga and Kjolsrod 2001.
• Women and the vision thing.  Ibarra and Obodaru 2009.
• Defining, navigating and negotiating success. Kalet et. al. 2006.
• Negotiation in academic medicine.  A necessary career skill.  sarfaty et al 2007.
• Who goes to the bargaining table?  The influence of gender and framing on the initiation of negotiation.  Small et. al. 2007.
• Negotiating workplace equality:  A systemic approach.  Sturm 2009.
• Negotiation.  thompson Wang and Gunia 2010

Books:

Friedman SD.  Total Leadership, Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life.  Harvard Business Press 2008.

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