By Vicki Kramer, PhD, and Carolyn Adams, PhD Hospitals and health systems (Meds) and colleges/universities (Eds) represent the largest and most influential nonprofits in the United States – employing millions…
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AMWA News Archive - American Medical Women's Association
The American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) contacted the Senate Finance Committee to urge a hearing for and support of unanimous passage of S 824. Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of…
As the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the killing of George Floyd unfolds, Black people are facing a relentless onslaught of traumatic and activating video footage and…
Issued by AMWA / Advocacy Leaders A Facebook video posted by Susan Moore, MD, an Indiana physician who documented her concerns for racially biased care at an Indiana University Health…
How Women Physicians Fair When Mentored by Men versus Women AMWA challenges the concept that women reap the greater benefit when mentored/sponsored by men. The problem, according to AMWA leaders…
Nicole Sandhu, MD, PhD, FACP, FAMWA, president of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), and Scott Nass, MD, MPA, FAAFP, AAHIVS, president of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, issue…
In honor of September’s “Women in Medicine” month, the AMWA chapter at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, N.Y. organized a number of events to celebrate with the student…
AMWA Past President, Mary Guinan PhD, MD, professor emeritus and founding dean of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Public Health was honored with the naming…
AMWA Acts Quickly to Raise Concerns about Allegations of Gynecologic Procedures at ICE Facilities Claims that some women who are being held in detention have undergone reproductive surgical procedures without…
AMWA is thrilled to partner with The Permanente Journal on a special Women in Medicine issue in honor of September, Women in Medicine Month. We are especially grateful for the…
