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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 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).

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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.

Bringing our pillars to life

FEATURES

Tablet with a screenshot of a panel of women

BUILDING COMMUNITY

Elevating the Experiences of Women in the Chest Medicine Community

CHEST leaders discuss the inception of the Women in Chest Medicine Interest Group—an evolution of the Women & Pulmonary Program, which has existed at CHEST since 2017.

6 MINUTES

SHAPING LEADERS

Blazing the Trail: Honoring the Women Presidents of CHEST

In its 90 years, CHEST has been led by several distinguished female presidents who have significantly contributed to the field of chest medicine.

8 MINUTE READ

IN THE NEWS

CHEST PHYSICIAN^®

Women in Chest Medicine Steering Committee

Margaret Pisani, MD, FCCP

Chair

Anita Rajagopal, MD, FCCP

Vice-Chair

Alexandra Wichmann, MD

Casey Cable, MD, MSc, FCCP

Danielle McCamey, DNP, CRNP, ACNP-BC, FCCP

Ghada Bourjeily, MD, FCCP

Jean Elwing, MD, FCCP

LaDonna Brown, DNP, CRNA

Marilyn Glassberg, MD, FCCP

Get involved with WiCM

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

Women in Chest Medicine is one of several CHEST Interest Groups. SEE ALL INTEREST GROUPS »