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Women in Chest Medicine Interest Group

The goal of the Women in Chest Medicine Interest Group is to provide a space where CHEST members can exchange resources, seek support, provide mentorship, gain knowledge, and share perspectives that broadly relate to the experiences of women in the chest medicine community (health care providers, patients, caregivers, and community members).

CHEST members can join this Interest Group to start receiving information on future events and opportunities.

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Our focus

The Women in Chest Medicine Interest Group serves to develop and support women in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, equipping them to address unique and common challenges. The group also advocates, promotes, and educates about the impact of sex and gender on lung and sleep health and critical illness.

The Women in Chest Medicine Interest Group is built on three pillars:

Professional development

Empower members to confidently navigate their careers, develop leadership skills, and access and provide high-impact mentorship and sponsorship.

Women’s health disparities

Increase efforts to drive awareness to the public on how certain diseases differentially affect women, both through the biology of sex and the social construct of gender, and how women patients can better advocate for themselves when working with clinicians to achieve optimum health.

Well-being and balance

Apply a holistic lens to well-being and issues of work/life balance that attend to the additional gendered labor that women perform (being mindful of the ways in which race, sexual orientation, ability, and other intersecting factors further compound this labor). Offer supportive tools and resources that encourage whole-self wellness.

Resources from Women in Chest Medicine

VIDEO

Elevating the Experiences of Women in the Chest Medicine Community

March 10, 2023 | CHEST leaders, Doreen Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP; Carolyn D’Ambrosio, MD, FCCP; and Aneesa Das, MD, FCCP, sat down with Elizabeth J. Stigler, PhD, CHEST Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, for a discussion on the Women in Chest Medicine Interest Group—an evolution of the Women & Pulmonary Program, which has existed at CHEST since 2017.

Women in Chest Medicine Steering Committee

Margaret Pisani, MD, FCCP

Chair

Anita Rajagopal, MD, FCCP

Vice-Chair

Ghada Bourjeily, MD, FCCP

Marilyn Glassberg, MD, FCCP

Danielle McCamey, DNP, FCCP

Amik Sodhi, MD, FCCP

Alexandra Wichmann, MD

Get involved with WiCM

Membership in WiCM is open to all CHEST members. Sign up, and we’ll reach out with information on future events and opportunities.

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