3/ Even though female executives are sparse among healthcare ranks, 26 percent of its executives are women. It's among the highest of any industry, alongside finance and retail….
4/ But-Female executives are concentrated in C-suite roles like chief human resource officer positions (where 55% are women) and chief marketing officers (36%), Investopedia reported.
5/ At Fortune 500 companies, just 1 in 13 companies is led by a woman. In total, 37 companies have a woman as CEO, which is the highest number of women leading a top company in American history.
7/ One reason there are so few female CEOs is that the pipeline is shrinking, IBM found. The number of women in roles that lead to executive positions has been declining since 2019. Stanford researchers found women make up just 13% of the leadership pipeline @aayshacader
8/ Another factor is that women are holding fewer seats at the top MBA programs vs male counterparts. It took the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia 140 years to welcome a class with more women than men, the first of any elite program @ShrillaB
9/ Even women who make it to the top encounter challenges that may weigh on their tenure. 3 out of 4 female executives reported feeling imposter syndrome at some point in their career, a study by consultant firm KPMG found @NadeenFaza@drmalissawood@AnnMarieNavar@noshreza
10/ Women also receive less leadership transition support than men. Men are 13 percent more likely to receive leadership skills training than women and are 22 percent more likely to be assigned a formal mentor @MeeraDas@purviparwani@SamRRazaMD
11/ Perceptions on what makes a good leader are skewed by gender role assumptions. 💃🏻leaders are often plagued by sexist stereotypes that label them "too emotional" for leadership. To be deemed an effective leader they have to limit themselves to 3 emotions: cheer, calm and pride
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Dr. Steve Nissen #FHSummit24
#CvPrev #CardioTwitter
🚨🚨🚨We are failing patients🚨🚨🚨
🚨🚨🚨After 3 decades our practice pattern is the same
It started in the 1970’s with the Cholesterol Skeptics…& now just stronger despite all the evidence
#CVPrev #CardioTwitter
Despite trials that proved the effectiveness of statins, the next studies didn’t help convince people that lower LDL was better (commercial statin wars drove this!)
So patient remained under-treated… as they are now.
#FHSummit24
Then the REVERSAL trial shows no progression with intensive LDL ⤵️ and lower is better.
PROVE-IT showed also lower is better
And so did all these other trials…
And terms, we still don’t use intensive LDL lowering because our guidelines didn’t keep pace with the evidence
@ASPCardio Statement: Defining Preventive Cardiology
🫀Noted ⤵️ in mortality from CVD over the past several decades driven by progress in prevention
🫀More recently CVD mortality ⬆️ w/ ⬆️ risk factors at younger ages
🫀Our goal was to define the field of preventive cardiology
@ASPCardio proposed a unifying definition of preventive cardiology: proactive, patient-centered approach in which clinician, or team of clinicians and non-clinicians, assesses CV risk & implements a comprehensive strategy of risk mitigation to prevent CVD & its clinical sequelae.
CVD Prevention goes far beyond LDL.
Lifestyle Approaches are key and we have had @ASPCardio statements on this, including the role of nutrition on heart health led by @DBelardoMD and myself, with the collaboration of many others
👉Rate of ⬆️ of #WIC is just 0.3%/year
👉No Federal Mandate for Maternity Leave in🇺🇸
👉Issues related to childbearing affect practicing cardiologists
💃purpose of this study was to examine
the impact of pregnancy & maternity leave &
associated institutional policies/practices WIC
📌323 Respondents: ~35% of #WIC so quite good for a survey
📌Practices: Academic🎓/Hospital🏥/🏠Private
📌37% report extra call/service prior to MatLeave
📌<8% have RVUs prorated for MatLeave
📌41% had salary⬇️ during pregnancy year
📌23%: no paid MatLeave
Recommendations to ⬇️ #ASCVD with Nutrition: 1. Primary and Secondary Prevention of ASCVD: A diet consisting predominantly of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, plant protein & fatty fish is optimal for the prevention of ASCVD
🥕🥬🥦🫑🥒🍅🧅🧄🥔🐟🍉🍒🍏🍊🍇🍋🍎🌶️🍈🍐🌿🌱
2. Hyperlipidemia: Replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat, reducing dietary cholesterol intake, and increasing intake of fiber rich foods, can all lead to a ⬇️ in LDL-C and apoB.
The Chest Pain Guidelines are now released! ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…
Top 10: CHEST PAINS
Thanks to the entire writing group and my co-cahirs: Deb Murkerjee & Phil Levy
💥First Chest Pain Guidelines @AHAScience@ACCinTouch
Top 10 messages:
#1: Chest Pain is MORE than Pain in the chest
➡️History Matters
➡️ Assess probability of chest pain symptoms being ischemic
#2:High sensitivity troponin are useful and preferred biomarker
💥No more CK/CM, no more myoglobin
@hswapnil showed that until now for CKD, every trial of other drugs has essentially failed.
Although renal function was not a 10 (or 2o or even 3o) endpoint of EMPA trials, the benefits were seen
Work by @ChristosArgyrop (🥬Lover & #Flozinator) showed Renal & CVD benefits #SGLT2i
@hswapnil@uOttawa mentioned that mechanism of how renal protection with #SGLT2i occurs unknown. But asked the proactive question: "Does it Matter?"...and now he is a cardiologists according to @JavedButler1