Hear From Her: The Women in Healthcare Leadership Podcast Series

Jul 23 2024 18 ep. 32 mins 8
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Welcome to the Women in Healthcare Leadership Series. Every week, we’re amplifying and elevating the experiences, perspectives, and insights of women leaders to advance women’s health and gender equality.

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Aesthetic Medicine: A Young Specialty In Need of an Accredited Pathway

Jul 23 2024 30 mins  
In this episode, two global leaders in aesthetic medicine, Tatjana Pavicic, MD, expert practitioner and internationally respected speaker and trainer on advanced cosmetic dermatology and surgery, and Terri L. Phillips, MD, FAAP, Chief Medical Affairs Officer at Merz Aesthetics, share their personal journeys to leadership positions, the influence of celebrity culture and social medi

Hidden Biases Towards Women Get Under Their Skin

Jul 09 2024 30 mins  
Two renowned experts in dermatology talk about the character traits that helped them rise to leadership roles, why diversity in clinical trials is essential for improving skin-care treatments, and how certain skin conditions affect women differently than men. This podcast is not available for CME/CE/CPD credits. Please visit the Medscape homepage for accredited CME/CE/CPD activitie

Reaching Women Where They’re At: Setting Up a Safe Space for HIV Prevention Conversations

Jun 24 2024 35 mins  
According to the CDC, out of 31,000 new HIV infections in the U.S, almost 20% were women. If we want to end the epidemic, say infection disease experts, at least 50% of people at high risk for contracting HIV need to be on pre-exposure prophylaxis medicine (PrEP). At the moment, 92% of those on PrEP are men and only 8% are women—so clearly our efforts to connect with women are fa

Digital Therapeutics: Breaking Down Barriers to Better Mental Health

Jun 11 2024 29 mins  
Digital Therapeutics are an exciting space in health technology, and also in the shift to patient-centric care. Providing patients with tools, resources, and personalized insights on their smartphone or device, whenever and wherever they need it, promotes a sense of ownership, improves self-care behaviors, and leads to better health outcomes. And that can be life-changing, especial

The Power of Patient Insights to Improve Cancer Care

May 29 2024 57 mins  
Two global patient advocacy groups—The Lymphoma Coalition and Lung Cancer Europe— are compiling data from their communities on the real-world experience of living with cancer. What the data reveals sometimes challenges existing protocols around cancer care. This is the 2nd in a two-part conversation with Lorna Warwick, CEO, The Lymphoma Coalition and Anne-Marie Baird, Preside

Pioneering Paths: Women Leadership in Rare Disease

May 14 2024 35 mins  
Rare diseases are often thought of as affecting one in 100,000 or one in 1,000,000 people, and that is true for some conditions. But there are many rare diseases that are more common. It may surprise many to learn that a condition that’s considered rare has a prevalence of 1 in 2000 or lower, and rare diseases overall affect more than 300 million people worldwide. To learn more a

Why Women in Medicine Should Embrace Social Media

Apr 24 2024 26 mins  
Of course social media has its downside. But online platforms are a powerful tool for women in medicine in terms of forming communities, fighting misinformation, amplifying one another, and galvanizing support for grassroots organizations to drive change. Need help navigating social media? Here’s an online toolkit for health professionals. This podcast is not available for CME/CE

Getting Past the Old-Fashioned View of Patient Advocacy

Apr 09 2024 44 mins  
Patient advocacy organizations today are data-driven, doing amazing work — and have the hard evidence to support their impact on patient care. The challenge is getting past the perception of a group of people “bringing biscuits and cookies to the cancer clinic.” To read Medscape's White Paper on patient-centricity in oncology care in collaboration with Lorna Warwick, CEO of t

A Woman Should Not Be Treated As a Small Man

Mar 29 2024 37 mins  
What should the future of women’s healthcare look like? Two renowned physicians say it involves a multidisciplinary, holistic approach, where a group of different specialists work together to provide a lifetime course of holistic primary and specialty care. This podcast is not available for CME/CE/CPD credits. Please visit the Medscape homepage for accredited CME/CE/CPD activiti

The Power Dynamics of Women and Cancer

Mar 08 2024 46 mins  
The purpose of The Lancet Commission: Women, Power, and Cancer was to draw attention to the global inequities that women face with respect to cancer care. The commission explored 3 areas of “power” (or lack thereof): decision-making, knowledge, and economics. They published their findings last September, along with 10 priority actions that must happen for women to obtain qualit