While their ranks in academic surgery may be not be robust, women surgeons are holding their own when it comes to surgical research, securing a greater percentage of National Institutes of Health (NIH ...

Dr. Chaneve Jeanniton writes to one woman who she considers having embodied leadership in the surgical field that impacted her. It’s been a minute! I hope you’ve been well and that you and yours are ...

*Velma Scantlebury, who became the nation’s first black female transplant surgeon in 1989, believes there are more issues to overcome even after 30 years of achieving equity in organ allocation. In a ...

A new study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery suggests that patients treated by female surgeons have lower rates of adverse postoperative long-term outcomes including death compared to similar ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The percentage of female surgeon-scientists increased between 2012 and 2022. Female surgeon-scientists held more ...

Studies from Canada and Sweden claim patients operated on by female surgeons are less likely to have adverse outcomes including death 12 months post operation Getty Two new studies out of Canada and ...

Dr. Shasta E. Henderson knows she is a rare commodity. In fact, it's a circle small enough that they gather regularly on Zoom calls. Henderson, a surgeon with Trident Orthopedic Specialists, is one of ...

*The first Black American female transplant surgeon has called out the racial biased that permeates the organ donation system. Velma Scantlebury told Zenger that Black Americans continue to face ...

New research finds little evidence that post-surgical patient mortality is lower when patient and surgeon are the same gender. While gender concordance has been shown to improve patient care in other ...

"This is incredibly [meaningful] to me," Dr. Lynn O’Connor told "GMA3." Dr. Lynn O’Connor is now the first Black female police surgeon for the New York Police Department (NYPD) after being sworn in on ...

Only one in five practicing surgeons in the U.S. are women. And while women are entering the surgical field in increasing numbers, health experts worry they may face a higher risk of pregnancy ...