ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Pinn, V. W.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Pinn, V. W.
Related Collections
Right arrow Professional affairs

Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:S1-S2
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Preface

Vivian W. Pinn, MDa

a Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Pinn, National Institutes of Health, Building 1, Room 201, HIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
e-mail: pinnv@od1tm1.od.nih.gov

Presented at the Women in Thoracic Surgery Symposium at the Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan 31, 2000.

Despite remarkable progress in recent decades, women still face many obstacles that prevent them from pursuing and advancing in biomedical careers. Barriers of entrenched social attitudes, outdated institutional systems, financial constraints, family responsibilities, and discrimination continue to hinder women in their efforts to achieve and contribute according to their potential as health care professionals, academicians, and biomedical scientists. This has been particularly true in the surgical specialties of medicine, especially thoracic surgery. Fortunately, today, thanks to the vocal advocacy and purposeful efforts of women and men within organizations such as The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, change is at hand. Indeed, if current trends and initiatives of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Society of Cell Biology, and other professional groups, Federal agencies, and advocacy organizations are realized, the demographic profile of the scientific and health professional communities in the 21st century will truly mirror that of the American populace.

During the past decade, effective advocacy and societal trends have focused unprecedented attention and resources on women’s health. The best means of ensuring that research related to women’s health remains a visible and active priority in the future is to increase the number of women in advanced and policymaking positions in the biomedical professions, including within medical specialties that few women have traditionally pursued. Recognizing the actual and potential contributions of women to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2001 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.