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Dr. Dana Telem, a professor of surgery at the University of Michigan who wasn’t involved in the new study, suggested that the improved outcomes linked to female surgeons may have to do with the ...
A December 2021 JAMA Surgery study found that female patients had worse outcomes when treated by male physicians, but the same wasn’t true for male patients treated by female physicians.
Female patients have significantly lower rates of 30-day mortality and readmission when cared for by female physicians. This is the finding of a new analysis of 750,000 Medicare recipients ...
Shirin Towfigh (born 1971, Tehran) is an American surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive hernia surgery. [1] She is the president and founder of the Beverly Hills Hernia Center, a specialty clinic launched in 2013 for treating hernias and hernia-related complications. [2]
Julie Ann Freischlag (born 1955) is an American vascular surgeon and current CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.She was the first female surgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first female chief of vascular surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) is a non-profit educational and professional organization founded in 1981.Now with more than 3,800 members in more than 50 different countries, AWS is one of the largest international organizations dedicated to supporting, enhancing the interaction, and facilitating the exchange of information between women surgeons at various stages in their careers ...
When her mentor asked why she was being rejected, one surgeon replied that bringing in the first black woman was too much of a risk for his program. [4] As a result, Hayes-Jordan went to a training program in Toronto and in 2002, she became the first black, female, board-certified pediatric surgeon in the United States.
Claudia L. Thomas is the first female African-American orthopedic surgeon in the United States. She attended Medical School at Johns Hopkins University.She was the first African-American and woman to be admitted to the Yale Medical Program in orthopedics. [1]