Barbara Overholser

ORCID: 0000-0003-4284-2364
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Research Areas
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Medical Education and Admissions
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Mentoring and Academic Development
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
  • Healthcare Systems and Challenges
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts

Drexel University
2019-2025

In this perspective piece, we describe a multifactorial phenomenon whereby academic women physicians become invisible in the mid-career stage. Barriers, both small and large, cause cumulative inequity effect, may leave medicine. Certainly, family lifestyle choices play role. And as describe, so is situation created where discouraged disillusioned. We growing evidence of subtle disparities, or micro-inequities, that to be less visible marginalized. Over time, early career transition with an...

10.1089/jwh.2019.7732 article EN Journal of Women s Health 2019-10-08

Julie K. Silver, MD; A. Poorman, PhD; Julia M. Reilly, Nancy D. Spector, Richard Goldstein, Ross Zafonte, DO

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.6484 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JAMA Network Open 2019-06-28

Academics in medicine are frequently asked to serve on panels discuss their clinical, research, education, administrative or personal expertise. While panel discussions often the highlight of a conference event, medical literature, there is very little published how an individual can effectively prepare and present as expert panelist. This paper offers guidelines that will enable academics prepare, deliver, engage active dialogue during discussion. Specific tactics include accept invitations...

10.1080/10872981.2024.2316986 article EN cc-by-nc Medical Education Online 2024-02-16

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have significantly influenced medical worldwide. Nevertheless, the authorship of CPGs produced by several societies has not been representative field and population they address, as women individuals from racial ethnic minority groups underrepresented authors. We hypothesized that minoritized would also be authors American Academy Pediatrics (AAP).

10.1089/jwh.2023.1132 article EN Journal of Women s Health 2024-06-06

Importance Women account for only 28% of current US medical school deans. Studying the differences between women and men in their preparation to becoming deans might help explain this discrepancy. Objective To identify leadership development experiences ascent deanship. Design, Setting, Participants In qualitative study, volunteers from roster Association American Medical Colleges Council Deans were solicited interviewed June 15 November 9, 2023. recruited first, then who had been appointed...

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.20570 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JAMA Network Open 2024-07-05

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

10.1002/jhm.70010 article EN Journal of Hospital Medicine 2025-02-11

Women continue to be underrepresented in medicine, especially senior leadership positions, and they experience challenges related gender bias sexual harassment. who are members of multiple groups that marginalization, including, for example, women American Indian, Alaskan native, indigenous, Black, or Hispanic, face a compounded challenge. In this article, we explore how institutions professional organizations medicine can use metrics better understand the structural disparities create...

10.1542/peds.2021-051440g article EN PEDIATRICS 2021-09-01

J. K. S. reports that she participates in research funded by the Binational Scientific Foundation and is an advisor for Simplifed a venture partner at Third Culture Capital. N. D. co-founder holds equity I-PASS Patient Safety Institute. A. M. has received honoraria speaking engagements.

10.1002/jhm.13340 article EN Journal of Hospital Medicine 2024-03-25

Dr. Spector is a cofounder and holds equity in the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute Executive Director of Leadership Academic Medicine. Arora Ms. Overholser have nothing to disclose.

10.1002/jhm.12992 article EN Journal of Hospital Medicine 2022-10-31

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a lot about the American impressive yet fragile and overtaxed health care system. Our support systems – both institutional human- were taxed. Building our network through variety of methods can help to strengthen system while also helping dismantle structural inequities that have negative consequences for workforce patient care. Seeking allies in medicine has become an integral component building one's becoming ally those communities are isolated or under...

10.33470/2379-9536.1373 article EN cc-by-nd Marshall Journal of Medicine 2022-04-29
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