Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (Jan 2023)

Women physicians in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: Past, present, and future

  • Lilia M. Sierra-Galan,
  • Niti R. Aggarwal,
  • Jadranka Stojanovska,
  • Subha V. Raman,
  • Yuchi Han,
  • Vanessa M. Ferreira,
  • Katharine Thomas,
  • Nicole Seiberlich,
  • Purvi Parwani,
  • Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci,
  • Lauren A. Baldassarre,
  • Sophie Mavrogeni,
  • Karen Ordovas,
  • Jeanette Schulz-Menger,
  • W. Patricia Bandettini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.984326
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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Women’s engagement in medicine, and more specifically cardiovascular imaging and cardiovascular MRI (CMR), has undergone a slow evolution over the past several decades. As a result, an increasing number of women have joined the cardiovascular imaging community to contribute their expertise. This collaborative work summarizes the barriers that women in cardiovascular imaging have overcome over the past several years, the positive interventions that have been implemented to better support women in the field of CMR, and the challenges that still remain, with a special emphasis on women physicians.

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