Topic: Leadership, Mentorship, and Physician Issues

Chadi invites Mary L (Nora) Disis, MD, editor-in-chief of Jama Oncology, to learn the ins-and-outs of what it takes to be the lead editor of a highly prestigious oncology journal. She shares what went into her decision to accept the editor-in-chief position and help launch the journal in 2015, what goes into her thought process … Read more

Pamela Kunz, MD, director of the gastrointestinal cancers program, Yale University School of Medicine, divulges the subtle microaggressions and power differentials that she and other women experience as they find success in academic medicine, including public undermining of leadership roles and challenges of establishing relationships with pharmaceutical companies for research grants. She explains how she … Read more

Chadi brings on two Lebanese doctors living in Beirut to discuss the tragedy that shook the nation earlier this month. Zakia Dimassi, MD, MHPE, and Mohamad Ali Cheaito, MD, recount their first-hand experiences of the moment the explosion happened, how poorly enforced COVID-19 safety regulations exacerbated the health crisis before the explosion and will likely … Read more

Benjamin Davies, MD, Professor of Urology, University of Pittsburgh, shares the facts behind the true devastation that the opioid crisis is inflicting on the US; the blame that pharmaceutical advertising, inappropriate prescribing, and formulation of drugs have on the opioid crisis; the origins and early warning signs of the crisis; and whether there is data … Read more

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, scholar in residence, school of medicine, Stanford University, discusses “stereotype threat” and the challenges that women face when training to become surgeons, methods of researching gender inequity and bias in medicine, and bias against foreign medical graduates.