{"id":2765,"date":"2018-10-03T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2020-02-14T02:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:53:01","slug":"annual-women-in-medicine-discussion-emphasizes-female-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/annual-women-in-medicine-discussion-emphasizes-female-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of OB-GYN &#038; Women&#8217;s Health: Annual Women in Medicine discussion emphasizes female leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2765\" class=\"elementor elementor-2765\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-408b1ad0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"408b1ad0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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data-id=\"5c46cd79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>October 3, 2018 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p><p><em>Pictured: Dr. Naleen Andrade and Dr. Reni Soon.<\/em><\/p><p>Written by Vina Cristobal<\/p><p>This year\u2019s Women in Medicine talk, sponsored by the JABSOM Office of Student Affairs and the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence, focused on the power of the female voice in modern times.<\/p><p>Women make up more than half of the providers \u2013 doctors, medical assistants, nurses \u2013 who are affiliated with JABSOM and its faculty practice, University Health Partners of Hawaii (UHP Hawaii).<\/p><p>On September 28, Dr. Winona Lee moderated the talk, which highlighted keynote speakers Dr. Naleen Andrade, professor of the Department of Psychiatry; and Dr. Reni Soon, professor and resident research director of the Department of OB\/GYN and Women\u2019s Health.<\/p><p>&#8212;<\/p><p><strong>Lead with \u2018power and love\u2019<\/strong><\/p><p>Dr. Andrade shared her experiences growing up as a Native Hawaiian woman and leader. She also told about her experiences as a leader in the revitalization of the JABSOM Department of Psychiatry and the creation of UHP.<\/p><p>She noted that her familial upbringing, as well as her experiences of initially being rejected from medical school and eventually being admitted into the \u02bbImi Ho\u02bb\u014dla program, attributed to her development as a leader. She also challenged the tacit bias in modern day culture\u2019s perspective of women \u2013 that any woman who wields power is placed in a negative light.<\/p><p>\u201cAn effective leader must learn to build and use power to achieve his\/her organization\u2019s purpose and aims,\u201d Dr. Andrade said. \u201cIt would take me two decades to fully comprehend and effectively apply this leadership principle. I think the reason it took me so long to fully grasp the necessity to build and use power was because of an underlying assumption that women should not and cannot wield power.\u201d<\/p><p>Dr. Andrade shared the four types of power: expert power (focusing on education, reseach and clinical skills); reward power (developing healthy relationships with others through acknowledging their performance); reverent power (building a level of respect and trust with peers); and generative power (bringing about social change).<\/p><p>As a female leader and as a doctor, she addressed that love and power are two things that go hand in hand, and one cannot thrive healthily without the other.<\/p><p>\u201cPower without love is reckless, abusive and self-serving, but love without power is sentimental, commercially exploitive and limited,\u201d she said. \u201cGenerative power is formed when power is permeated and influenced by love.\u201d<\/p><p>She encouraged attendees to utilize the combined effort of power and love to create new opportunities for women.<\/p><blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThe advancement of women in medicine and our larger society must incorporate these four kinds of power to create new cultural narratives and underlying assumptions where women build and direct power that ends the current sociocultural inequities and hierarchies that ignore the voice and presence of women.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p>&#8212;<\/p><p><strong>Setting the bar higher than \u2018boys will be boys\u2019 <\/strong><\/p><p>While Dr. Andrade emphasized the importance of being a strong female leader through her own experiences, Dr. Soon\u2019s presentation shifted the focus to current events and circumstances and how those paralleled in her life.<\/p><p>In wake of accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Soon pointed out that some people dismiss sexual harassment cases with the phrase, \u2018boys will be boys.\u2019<\/p><p>\u201cMedicine is not immune to [sexual harassment] at all. Is there sexism in medicine? Yes. Absolutely. Aside from the obvious statistics like unequal pay and the disproportionate lack in women in medicine as department chairs, hospital dept chairs and committee chairs. There\u2019s all that. But I have seen sexual harassment. It\u2019s real. Medicine right now still actually is a man&#8217;s world. The system still benefits men.\u201d<\/p><p>As the mother of two young boys, she wants her sons to know that women can share the equal amount of responsibility and power as men.<\/p><blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s got to be a higher bar than \u2018boys will be boys\u2019. The future can change. We\u2019ve got to be a model for our younger generations.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p>She adds on that in order for women to be game changers, they must take hold of positions of leadership.<\/p><p>\u201cA colleague of mine texted me and said: \u2018Lean in.\u2019 We\u2019re going to lean in, all of us women in here, specifically the medical students. We\u2019re going to lean in. It\u2019s not enough that women make up the majority of medical schools and residencies anymore. We need to be leaders. \u2028We need to take those jobs. We deserve those jobs. Don\u2019t rest on your laurels. We need to lean in and take those positions of power, not influence.\u201d<\/p><p>She prompted attendees, specifically the medical students, that they need to speak up and listen more when faced with situations relating back to harassment.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to call out sexual harassment whenever we see it. And I\u2019m speaking for myself. I\u2019m making a pledge to all of you now. I am going to do this every time I see it, and every time I haven\u2019t. We can\u2019t just play the game and get to the top. 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