May Health Equity Seminar - Cornell Center for Health Equity

First day of Women’s Health Week – I organized a panel on medical gaslighting and how women’s symptoms are dismissed in healthcare. Title: “She said, they won’t listen. Bias in women’s healthcare.” The panels are:

Victoria Leigh Brown, PhD – first author of paper “Believing women: a qualitative exploration of provider disbelief and pain dismissal among women with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome from the MAPP research network“
Arianne Malekzadeh, MA, doctoral candidate at George Washington University, first author on paper “‘Am I Truly Invisible?’: Black Women’s Experiences of and Coping With Intersectional Invisibility in Uterine Fibroid Treatment“
Charee M. Thompson, MD, PhD, Department of Communications at University of Illinois, first author on paper “Women’s experiences of health-related communicative disenfranchisement“