An Evidence Based Approach to Promote Equity for Women in Academic Medicine
The Gender Equity Council is proud to sponsor Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, Feb. 7, 12-1pm. Dr. Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, will present "Gender Equity in Career Advancement/Leadership."
About Reshma Jagsi
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine.
A board certified radiation oncologist at Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Jagsi specializes in the care of patients with breast cancer.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Women in Medicine in Science.
She now serves as chair of both the Ethics Committee and the Women in Radiation Oncology Group for the American Society of Radiation Oncology, the NIH's Board of Scientific Counselors and Advisory Committee for Research on Women's Health, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
She is a fellow of American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Radiation Oncology and the Hastings Center, and has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians.
Prior to joining Emory, Jagsi was the Newman Family Professor, deputy chair and residency program director in the Department of Radiation Oncology and director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan.
She completed undergraduate and medical training at Harvard University and her second doctorate in social policy at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. She also served as a fellow in the Center for Ethics at Harvard University and completed her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Radiation Oncology Program.
Internationally recognized for her research in both breast cancer and bioethics, she is the author of more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including multiple high-impact studies in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and JAMA.