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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Humbled to be nominated for @gohealio.bsky.social Woman Disruptor of the Year for my advocacy for and research on parental leave for gastroenterologists (while on parental leave!) 🗳️please check out the other incredible nominees and vote for your choice below! www.surveymonkey.com/r/Disruptive...

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Healio Disruptive Innovators Awards 2026

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The inaugural @amcollegegastro.bsky.social Women in GI Podcast just dropped! I hope you enjoy our conversation on pregnancy & #GIFellowship Stay tuned for other great topics, including a finance mini-series, and discussions of career paths and practice settings! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Want to learn on your commute? Check out @amcollegegastro.bsky.social podcast series on Pregnancy and GI and Liver Diseases! In this episode, I interview the brilliant and passionate Dr Aline Charabaty on Diarrhea and Fecal Incontinence During Pregnancy ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Episode 8: Fecal Incontinence and Diarrhea During Pregnancy

Podcast Episode · The ACG GI in Pregnancy Monograph Podcast · 08/01/2025 · 10m

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thrilled (and a bit surprised) to be nominated for a Disruptive Influencer Award by @gohealio.bsky.social . An incredible group of nominees - please vote for your choice below! www.surveymonkey.com/r/HealioInno...

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Healio Disruptive Innovators Awards 2025

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Join the #DDW2025 Symposium on Practical Solutions for Family Friendly Work Policies and Improved Recruitment & Retention, at 10am today in Room 1 ! Dr Kira Newman and I will moderate an incredible line up: Drs @amyoxentenkomd.bsky.social , Vazquez-Roque, Rodriguez and Macmillan

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Fascinating first talk in this session on same-gender preferences for endoscopist for colon cancer screening in a Thai patient population, by Dr Kanya Hirunrattanaporn #DDW2025

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Interested in practical solutions for addressing gender and racial disparities in GI? Come to the AGA Research Forum "The Evolving Landscape of Gastroenterology" *today* at 4pm in 20A Excited to co-moderate with the wonderful Dr. @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social #DDW2025 @amergastroassn.bsky.social

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thrilled to have received the ACG/ASGE Epidemiologic Research Award to study Patient Sex and Endoscopist Gender, and implications for Colonoscopy Quality Assessment Thanks to generous funders and to amazing Co-Is Dr Cummings, Maranki, Schmitt & Calderwood, who taught me so much during this process!

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I went with my kindergartner to a Welcome Blanket Project @welcomeblanket.bsky.social event at our local library. Values of kindness and welcoming seem to come naturally to kids (and yet so hard for some adults).

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

open.substack.com/pub/annehele... Tragic and important: "Why fund schools if you don’t have kids in them?...Or research to cure a disease you don’t have? ... Instead, each person should be able to ... pay for the stuff that matters to them: ...their own private schools, their own concierge doctors"

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This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World

The Twilight of the American Passion Job

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Love this article from @amyoxentenkomd.bsky.social on thinking outside the box for workforce solutions. Allowing physicians to work part time may actually improve patient access to care, as docs close to retirement and those with young kids can stay in the workforce www.healio.com/news/gastroe...

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‘Think outside the box’: ACG president aims to address workforce of the future

At last year’s ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, as president-elect, I sat in at the Board of Governors meeting, where the recurrent theme was workforce shortages in gastroenterology and how we wer...

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My co-authors and I discuss our experience in early career research in gastroenterology Establishing the FELD Lab (Fostering Equity in Liver and Digestive disease) and mentoring talented trainees has been a source of true joy amidst rising challenges to academics www.mdedge.com/gihepnews/ar...

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Clinical Research in Early Career Academic Medicine | MDedge

Individual and institutional investment and support are vital to the success of junior physicians seeking a career in clinical research.

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Receiving healthcare is terrifying for many people right now. I wish I could do more. All I can tell you is that if you are in the LGBTQ+ community and you see me, I'll give you the highest level of respect and quality care, as I do for everyone. As you deserve. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38693299/

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Transgender health care in the United States: legal, ethical and practical concerns for gastroenterologists in a changing landscape - PubMed

Transgender health care in the United States: legal, ethical and practical concerns for gastroenterologists in a changing landscape

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Health disparities are real and study after study has shown the role of racism in these disparities. I want to see physicians and scientists shout that from the rooftops. Stop complying in advance.

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My endoscopy center already has the resources that @drkmcooper.bsky.social made for our paper up on the wall 😊

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A reminder that HIPAA applies regardless of a patient’s immigration status. A 6-year-old article from the AMA with evergreen guidance for healthcare providers facing this situation: www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

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A colleague wants to call ICE on a patient. What should you do?

Concerns over a patient’s immigration status can create uncertainty and stress in clinic. These five legal points add clarity.

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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA (BurgartBioethix) @alyssaburgart.com · 25/01/2025

Healthcare workers: Now is a great time to plan ahead before you’re face-to-face with an ICE agent. I’ve compiled 14 tips for healthcare workers ⬇️

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Be a Strong Link for Immigrant Patients 🔗

Enhance the ethical care of all patients when immigration agents enter hospitals

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

What do you tell a patient who comes for an endoscopic procedure and is lactating? Hint: it's not "pump and dump for 24 hours" as is often done Check out our new article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Grateful for amazing coauthors: Drs Oxentenko, Cooper, (big sis) Feld, and Gray #GISky

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iNSIGHTS: Recommendations for endoscopy and sedation in the lactating patient

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Study (N=520) over 25 years finds women consistently did majority of cooking, cleaning, groceries, laundry. Parenthood widened the gap. Decisions made early in relationships about the distribution of chores persisted over the life of those relationships. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Despite gains, women still do most of the housework. Will this gender gap ever narrow? | CBC News

Like the laundry that never goes away, research on the gender gap has shown us the same pattern over and over: women still take on more of the domestic tasks than men. Now, new research out of the Uni...

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Data out from the NZ Women in Medicine 2024 survey- Drs appear to be withdrawing from the profession: nearly a third (30%) of Secondary Care and 41% of Primary Care drs have thought about and discussed leaving the profession in the past 12 months.😔 More- www.nzwim.org.nz/work

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OUR WORK — NZ Women in Medicine

NZ Women in Medicine is a large networked community of women/wāhine doctors at all ages and stages of medicine. Currently the only pan professional medical organisation in New Zealand, dedicated to su...

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Study of Australian income data (2001-2013) finds longer parental leave is associated with lower post-leave income for women in men-dominated occupations but not in women-dominated or gender-neutral fields. theconversation.com/parental-lea...

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Parental leave paradox: Why women who take longer leaves face career penalties in men-dominated fields

Women who take longer parental leaves in men-dominated industries may face penalties, including lower pay and limited promotion opportunities.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

NIH supports a shockingly small amount of research on women's health. So, this cute song is on my Endoscopy playlist. Along with a lot of Taylor Swift.. open.spotify.com/track/5eoG7w...

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Female Body

Farideh · Female Body · Song · 2024

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Atoosa Rabiee @atoosarabiee.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It's that time of the year again. In no particular order, I would like to share a few of #livertwitter in 2024 with #liversky These could be original research, guidance statement, position paper or editorial. This is def not an inclusive list. Feel free to add to the 🧵

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Society is misaligned to modern life: school schedules unequal to work hours, workplaces made for employees w/o caregiving, lack of affordable childcare. The answer isn't confining women to one role, it is a society that works for the choices women make. www.vogue.com/article/joy-...

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11/12/2024

Abstracts authored by all-female teams are less likely to get accepted for presentation at economics conferences than those authored by all-male teams, even after adjusting for the authors’ prior track records and institutional prestige

Tweet from JohnHolbein1:

“All-female-authored papers are less likely to be accepted at economics conferences than all-male papers even when adjusting for...
1. the number of authors on a paper,
2. referees' traits,
3. subtield,
4. # of cites,
5. previous record of the authors,
6. connections between the authors of a given paper and the referees that evaluate it, AND
7. authors' institutional prestige.”

Screenshot of the study:
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 83, 3 (2021) 0305-9049
doi: 10.1111/obes.12409
Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences*
LAURA HOSPIDOT and CARLOS SANZ

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The absolute state of this. It's not just *medical* misogyny consigning women to years of pain... 😖

Screenshot of Guardian article titled 'Medical misogyny condemns women to years of gynaecological pain, MPs told'

Screenshot of The Age article with post 'a judge dismisses class action brought by 1400 Australian women who suffered crippling pain and major medical problems from a Bayer device claiming 'it is normal for women to experience pelvic pain'. Bayer paid $2.5 billion to US women.'

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

While NIH’s total spending on research grants grew from $26.3 billion to $43.7 billion between 2013 to 2023, the % spent on women's health dropped from 9.7% to 7.9%. And so we still don't have cures to common conditions like endometriosis. @meredithwadman.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH needs a new institute for women’s health research, expert panel says

National Academies report also calls for $16 billion in new money

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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If you're looking for GI/Liver people to follow, we have you covered:

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

On GI weekend call, rounding with the fellow like: (Sound on for the video) #MedSky #GISky

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

US DOL study finds a national paid family and medical leave program would reduce poverty across all communities, esp Black & Hispanic workers. Only 27% of workers & 6% of lowest wage earners have paid family leave. 41% of workers have short term disability insurance. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

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News Releases

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New UN report: one woman or girl is killed every 10 mins by their intimate partner or family member. In medicine, we need to screen for intimate partner violence. We also desperately need real solutions & protections to provide when someone asks for help. #Femicide www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

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One woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes by their intimate partner or family member | UN Women – Headquarters

New York, 25 November 2024 – On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November, the report Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femic...

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I've created a Gender Experts starter pack. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/4SiDwEu

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just your regular reminder that laboratory reference intervals rely on the following assumptions ✨Gaussian distribution of values ✨Healthy population ✨2.5% of population on either side is out of range Therefore they may or may not be relevant to any individual clinical decision making

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Fantastic liver meeting hearing and sharing #LiverLearning with wonderful colleagues. Back in MA for patient care tomorrow - already looking forward to next year! #TLM24

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Join us in Room 23 at 9:45am today to discuss reproductive healthcare for patients with liver disease! #TLM24 #LiverSky

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Grateful to have had the opportunity to present the keynote at the AASLD Women's Leadership Program. Presenting to this room of stars was invigorating and humbling. Great leadership by Dr Fleming and Dr Au. Thank you all for a great discussion after! #TLM24

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Excited to connect and learn from these fantastic women in medicine!

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Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Excited to join Blue Sky! 🦋 Looking to share ideas and advocate for workforce equity and women in medicine. Please comment below if you have similar interests - I'd love to follow you!

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