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Yale Medicine Magazine Refl Ects Recruiting Initiatives 1 Church Street, Suite 300 New Haven, CT 06510-3330 Begun in the 1970S and 1980S YALE MEDICINEYALE YALE UNIVERSITY, 1 CHURCH STREET, SUITE 300, NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage ymm.yale.edu Spring 2018 PAID Burlington, VT 05401 Permit No. 696 A century of women at Yale School of Medicine SPRING 2018 Spring 2018 ALSO 6 London artist’s portraits of YSM luminaries / 40 Virology revolutionist / 44 Healing through homecoming YM-Spring2018-Cover.indd 1 4/25/18 9:30 AM Celebrate 100 Years of Women in Medicine at YSM by attending our daylong symposium, Celebration and Refl ection, on June 1 from 9am-5am. Nearly two dozen speakers, meals and refreshments provided! LEARN MORE ON PAGE 39 Features 12/ Women’s Health Research at Yale 20 Years at the Forefront of Science. By Abby Roth 15/ Women at Yale: A view from students in their own words Th ree women medical students share their thoughts about YSM. By Adrian Bonenberger 16/ Women in medicine around the globe: Complex stories behind the numbers Growing up in patriarchal cultures presents additional challenges to aspiring women doctors. By Ashley P. Taylor 20/ Remembering Carolyn Slayman Faculty and administrators remember a beloved leader in the YSM community. By Jill Max 24/ Progress over 100 years An in-depth look at progress on gender equality at YSM over the last century. By Kathleen Raven 32/ Like mother, like daughter Laura Ment and her daughter, Anna Duncan, consider how YSM has evolved over two generations. By Adrian Bonenberger 36/ Pioneering women’s health: Profi les in courage Celebrating the efforts of some doctors who helped bring women’s health issues into the mainstream. By Jenny Blair, MD ’04 39/ Celebration and Refl ection: A century of women in medicine at Yale A daylong symposium will commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the fi rst women admitted to the School of Medicine. By Jill Max spring 2018 departments 2 From the editor / 3 Dialogue / 4 Chronicle / 9 Round Up / 40 Capsule / 42 Faces / 46 Q&A / 48 Books / 49 End Note COVER AND THIS PAGE: MAYA SZATAI ILLUSTRATIONSCOVER AND SZATAI THIS PAGE: MAYA spring 2018 letter from the editor volume 52, number 3 Editor Adrian Bonenberger Contributing Editors John Curtis Women at Yale School of the other diverse variables that bodies determined by govern- Robert Forman Medicine: a perspective factor into human identity. ments, employers, and health Kathy Katella-Cofrancesco Jill Max So much comes down to basic Being born with female insurers in ways very diff erent Kathleen Raven biological details. For years, “plumbing” brought restrictions, than for men. Senior Writers common wisdom used the leaving many women impris- Ironically, it was plumb- William Hathaway euphemism “plumbing” to oned on the wrong side of the ing that helped Yale School Ziba Kashef describe the essential dif- biological divide. Even today of Medicine open its doors to Karen Peart ferences between men and women say they have to work female students at the begin- Cathy Shufro women, as though the organs twice as hard to enjoy oppor- ning of the last century. A Contributors associated with being male or tunities similar to those of men. timely donation of funds suf- Jenny Blair, MD ’04 female determined everything Not to mention that women fi cient to build a bathroom for Deborah Cannarella Christopher Hoff man about them—professional continue to have fewer choices female students changed the Beth Howard opportunities, social bounda- about how to use their “plumb- scope of what was possible Jeanna Lucci-Canapari ries, acceptable fashion, and all ing,” with decisions about their for women, initiating an era in Abby Roth which they assumed their place Ashley P. Taylor beside men as medical stu- Art Director dents at Yale. Jennifer Stockwell This is more than a cute Copy Editors story. Institutional reforms Rebecca Frey, PhD SECOND OPINION Sarah Grey both small and large, combined BY SIDNEY HARRIS Marcia Kramer with the eff orts of advocates Mailing List Inquiries and pioneers, have helped cre- Maya Szatai ate the current moment at Visual Design Specialist Yale School of Medicine. The Cheryl R. Violante gender mix of our student body Website Coordinator refl ects the general population. Printing More women are on our faculty, The Lane Press including as administrators and Correspondence department heads. This truth Editor, Yale Medicine Magazine refl ects recruiting initiatives 1 Church Street, Suite 300 New Haven, CT 06510-3330 begun in the 1970s and 1980s. Telephone: 203-785-5824 In real terms, equality has never Facsimile: 203-785-4327 been closer on the slow march Email: [email protected] of progress. Yale Medicine Magazine is distributed to alumni, faculty, But generations-long biases students, and friends of Yale take generations to change. School of Medicine. This issue is dedicated to the Yale School of Medicine brave women from decades Robert J. Alpern, MD ago who laid the groundwork Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine for the present moment, as well Mary Hu as to those who are a part of Associate Dean for Communications and Chief Communications O cer Yale School of Medicine’s social Charles Turner and professional fabric today. Director of Medical Development Their voices and perspectives Deborah Jagielow are what will continue to drive Director of Alumni A airs Yale School of Medicine to Abbreviations used in Yale Medicine greater levels of success in an Magazine include HS to denote the fi nal year of residency for house staff , FW for increasingly diverse and com- the fi nal year of a fellowship, and petitive world. YNHH for Yale New Haven Hospital. Adrian Bonenberger Editor, Yale Medicine Magazine Copyright © 2018 Yale School of Medicine. All rights reserved. Send letters and news items to twitter.com/YaleMed Yale Medicine Magazine, 1 Church Street, Suite 300, New Haven, CT 06510 or email [email protected]. Please limit letters to 350 words and include a telephone number. Submissions may be edited for length. facebook.com/YaleSchoolofMedicine instagram.com/YaleMed 2 ymm.yale.edu dialogue The long steady march toward gender equality in the United States and the world is how to measure women’s contributions to life and the workplace equally—to fi nd a way of compensating them, and protect them from the specifi c forms of harassment to which they are often subjected. Dean Robert J. Alpern, MD, talks about initiatives that have succeeded in narrowing the gap between where Yale School of Medicine is and where it would like to be. e struggle for gender equality has been long and diffi cult. Is the end in sight? It’s a continuous thing we need to keep working on. I think we’re getting closer because of what we’ve learned, and what society’s learned. ere’s a much greater understanding of the lack of equality, greater understanding of the magnitude of the challenge. ese are not simple problems; medicine and science have been male-dominated cultures for a while now. We’re looking at ways to open those places up to women interested in careers, and one of those ways will likely involve examining metrics for success in medicine and science. What are some of the key gender equality issues you’ve seen as Dean of Yale School of Medicine that have been surprising? When you talk about the women on our faculty, if you’d asked me fi ve years ago, I would have thought sexual harassment was something that affected 5 percent of them. It’s become clear that the problem is much more widespread. We need to take that on and eliminate it. Our doctors shouldn’t feel unsafe in certain situations. e key is to eliminate it completely. Various issues one might think are easy to resolve relate to raising a family. e classical career paths in medicine have not made it easy to navigate that. We need to rethink career paths, the trajectories that are unforgiving to people who slow down their productivity for a year or two. And ultimately, many of these things come down to unconscious bias. ere’s a big educational component, too. Even since I’ve been here I’ve seen change, and we’ll keep working on ways to create a truly equal workplace for everyone. We’re headed in the right direction. chronicle » Honoring the tradition to reach the office of nita ahuja, md, mba, Yale’s new- est chair of surgery, one passes portraits of her 14 predeces- sors. Under the heading “Surgery Department Leaders,” they presided from 1813 (when Nathan Smith, MD, became surgery’s first chair) until 2016, when Ahuja’s predeces- sor, Robert Udelsman, MD, MBA, left the post. It’s a quick overview of Yale School of Medicine’s history, and in terms of gender distribution, the history of medicine as well. The wall will have to be updated. Ahuja, the first woman to lead As chair, Ahuja aims to focus the department, is also the on sustaining and improving William H. Carmalt Professor of Yale’s top-notch clinical care, Having honed her Surgery, and surgeon-in-chief expanding laboratory research, skills on the faculty at Yale New Haven Hospital. She and training tomorrow’s sur- of Johns Hopkins University, Nita Ahuja is one of 19 women who chair geons. She also wants to make is fully prepared to surgery departments in the the surgery department staff lead Yale’s department of surgery as their first United States, according to the more reflective of the population woman chair Association of Women Surgeons. it treats. Medicine and surgery in par- Ahuja came to Yale from Johns ticular have traditionally been Hopkins University, where she male-dominated fields.
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