@article{b8c2ae5428314774b4d34770dba91e08,
title = "A historic event: The first female officer of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery",
abstract = "At the 100th meeting of the AATS, the first woman ever was nominated to be an officer. Dr Yolonda Colson was nominated as Vice President and will be the first female President of the AATS. We celebrate her amazing and inspiring accomplishments.",
keywords = "education, gender, innovation, leadership, scholarship, sex",
author = "Lawton, {Jennifer S.}",
note = "Funding Information: Dr Colson is one of the rare female cardiothoracic surgeons who is a full professor, funded by the National Institutes of Health, and a chief of her division. She is the Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Colson is the Hermes C. Grillo Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. Before this position, she was the inaugural Michael A. Bell Family Distinguished Chair in Healthcare Innovation, the Executive Director for Surgical Innovation, and the Vice Chair of Surgical Innovation of the Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Doctor of Medicine from the Mayo Medical School, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. She did her General Surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh and Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was the co-chair of the 2015 AATS Annual Meeting Program and currently is the Chair of the Advisory Committee for the AATS Foundation. She is the Examination Chair for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and has received the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds 3 patents and has received more than 20 foundation grants and 7 RO1 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute. She currently holds 4 RO1 grants from the NIH and has contributed more than 140 peer-reviewed publications to the literature. Funding Information: Fewer female medical school faculty have obtained the rank of full professor compared with men, 7 , 8 and in 2016, only 3 female (6%) cardiothoracic surgeons were at the rank of full professor, compared with 237 (40%) male cardiothoracic surgeons. 5 At that time, only 2 women (3.9%) who were practicing cardiothoracic surgeons were chairpersons of their department/division compared with 122 men (19.2%). 7 Likewise, fewer women have received Research Project Grants funded by the NIH since 2000 compared with men, 9 fewer practicing cardiothoracic female surgeons have received any NIH funding compared with men, 5 and only 4 practicing female cardiac surgeons have ever been funded by the NIH, 10 representing 2.8% of all NIH-funded cardiac surgeons. ",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.06.079",
language = "English (US)",
journal = "Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery",
issn = "0022-5223",
publisher = "Mosby Inc.",
}