In 2013, the Association of Women Surgeons sponsored its second Green Solutions for the Operating Room Contest in a partnership with Practice Greenhealth. We received many innovative and creativ...
The AWS Kim Ephgrave Visiting Professor Program provides medical schools with the opportunity to request top women surgeons as speakers and receive funding from the AWS Foundation. Opportunities to le...
“The world will be saved by a Western Woman.” - His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama at the Vancouver Peace Summit, 2010His holiness stated this on stage with three Nobel peace laureates: Mairead Mag...
by Minerva Romero Arenas, MD, MPH There are two questions that students frequently ask me about becoming a doctor. One is, “What did you do to become a doctor?” and “How did you stay...
by Robert SwendimanWhether I am at Grand Rounds, a department meeting, or the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, it is often like looking into a mirror. I cannot help noticing the abundan...
by Lauren B. NosanovDr. Diana L. Farmer, an internationally renowned fetal and neonatal surgeon, is Chair of the Department of Surgery at UC Davis Health System, where she oversees more than 250 fac...
by Sophia K. McKinley For years, I limited my participation in social media: my tendency is to untag all photos of myself on Facebook, and as recently as six months ago I had never visited Twitter.co...
By Stephanie Bonne, MDWhen I finished my training, my husband and I were overwhelmed by decisions - student loans, college planning, life insurance, oh my! So, we decided to seek the help of a financi...
Amidst the universe that encompasses financial planning, what seems to perplex and puzzle people the most? The casual answer usually is “the stock market” or “how to properly and safely in...
By Christina Cellini, MD, FACS, FASCRSFinancial planning is something that gets overlooked during medical school and residency (likely because you probably don’t have much of it!). Before you know i...