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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stemming from the articles Ora sent which highlight the fact that fewer females are invited to present Grand Rounds in various clinical departments, I crunched our numbers here in Cardiology:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">~25% of Cardiology clinical fellows are female</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ~20% of Cardiology faculty are female (this includes UPP only, dual UPP & Pitt, and HVI/VMI faculty)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <5% of our Grand Rounds speakers are female (from the last 3 academic years).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I brought this up with our Chair of Cardiology,
<span class="spelle">Joon</span> Lee, and he was extremely enthusiastic and supportive of making an active effort to invite a more diverse group of speakers to our Grand Rounds, and he personally sent a list of potential invitees to the organizers of our Grand
Rounds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I highly encourage others in male-dominated clinical departments to do the same; my guess is that the idea will be received with similar success.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cindy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">__________________</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Assistant Professor of Medicine</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">University of Pittsburgh | Department of Medicine | Division of Cardiology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">1744.1 Biomedical Science Tower | 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh PA 15261 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">(p) 412.648.9441 | (f) 412.624.6161 | (e)
</span><a href="mailto:sthilaire@pitt.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0B4CB4">sthilaire@pitt.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> | www.sthilairelab.pitt.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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