Overview
The annual Women in Medicine Month webinar, sponsored by the Women Physicians Section (WPS), celebrates women physicians and students.
Webinar recording
Our annual WPS Women in Medicine Month webinar was held on Sept. 26 at noon Central.
Tami Benton, MD, presenter; Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, MBA, presenter; Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH, presenter; Gloria Wu, MD, moderator; and Deborah Fuller, MD, moderator, discuss ways to support women in medicine as they face challenges in aligning their career goals with personal responsibilities.
Panelists
Tami Benton, MD
Dr. Benton is the Frederick H. Allen chair in child psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She is the psychiatrist-in-chief and chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at CHOP and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
She directs the Child and Adolescent Mood Program and the Youth Suicide Prevention Center at CHOP. She is the president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the past president of the American Association of Directors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AADCAP).
Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Ramos is California’s second surgeon general and first Latina surgeon general. As California’s doctor, she is the leading spokesperson on pressing public health issues within the state. Her mission is to advance the health and wellbeing of all Californians.
Over the past three decades, Dr. Ramos has provided reproductive care to Californians as an ob/gyn at Southern California Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Ramos’ leadership spans from the local level in Los Angeles County where she previously served as the director for reproductive health, prior chair for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, California & Ecuador (IX) District.
Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH
Dr. Srinivas was elected to represent District 30 in the Iowa House of Representatives in 2022. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University and her medical degree with a certificate in teaching from the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine.
She completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and infectious disease fellowship at the University of North Carolina. She is an infectious disease physician, public health policy researcher, and serves as an ID expert for Iowa Primary Care Association. Dr. Srinivas also hosts the “Stories of Care” podcast.
Moderators
Gloria Wu, MD
Dr. Wu, a graduate of Harvard University, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed her ophthalmology residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and retina-vitreous fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, part of Harvard Medical School.
She is currently the president of the Santa Clara County Medical Association and the co-president of South Bay American Medical Women’s Association. She serves on the AMWA Executive Board and serves on the governing council of AMA's Women Physicians Section. She is also a clinical instructor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology.
Debbie Fuller, MD
Dr. Fuller is a highly respected and accomplished ob/gyn both locally and nationally. In addition to her private practice duties, she is a member of the residency teaching staff as an attending in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas.
She also serves as an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for the Texas A&M Medical School and is the president of the Dallas County Medical Society. Her primary focus areas in organized medicine have been the role of women physicians in medicine and state and national medical legislative issues.
