2021 SAEMF/AWAEM Research Grant - $5,000
"Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Networking Best Practices for Women in EM”
A leadership gap has been demonstrated in the field of Emergency Medicine, in which women are less likely than their male counterparts to hold positions or titles of chair, vice chair, professor, or medical director. This study will evaluate recurrent strategies and best practices that successful women in EM are employing to build their network with a goal of providing guidance for future generations of women in EM to decrease the established leadership gap.
Recipient
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Melissa Erin Parsons, MD
University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville
Dr. Melissa Parsons is a Program director and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville. She received a Bachelor's degree in Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville and attended medical school at UF as well. Dr. Parsons completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville and stayed on as faculty, serving as the Assistant Medical Director at their community hospital prior to transitioning into an educational role as Associate Residency Director and now Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program at UF-Jacksonville. She co-chairs the University of Florida-Jacksonville’s Women in Medicine and Science organization as well as organizing the residency program’s simulation and wellness efforts. Her professional interests include gender disparities in medical education, physician infertility and physician wellness.