2019-2020 STEM Circuit Wrap-Up: Mentorship and Resilience
Date: Tuesday June 23rd, 2020
Location: Zoom Webinar
Chicago Women in STEM Initiative is very pleased to announce our guest speaker, Dr. Shikha Jain, who is is a national leader and role model in medicine and health care. Dr. Jain will share her experiences and advice on mentoring and resilience on your career path. We hope you will join us for the last STEM Circuit of the 2019-20 academic year!
Dr.
Shikha Jain is a board-certified hematology and oncology physician. She
is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and
Oncology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is the Director
of Communications Strategies in Medicine and the Associate Director of
Oncology Communication and Digital Innovation. Dr. Jain is the Chief
Operating Officer and Co-Founder of the COVID19 Action group IMPACT and
co-founder and chair of the Women in Medicine Summit. Dr. Jain was named
one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Emerging Leaders in 2019, and was
also awarded the Rising Star award by the LEAD Oncology Conference in
2019. She was selected as a ResearcHERS ambassador by the American
Cancer Society, and was honored by 500 Women in Medicine. She has been
appointed to the 2020 American Society for Clinical Oncology Women’s
Networking Center taskforce and appointed to the Council on
Communications and Membership Advocacy for the Illinois State Medical
Society. She is also the founder of the social media group Dual
Physician Families.Dr.
Jain gave a TEDx talk in 2019 on the gender moonshot and the importance
of gender parity in healthcare. She is a nationally renowned speaker
and writes for several national publications including Scientific
American, The Hill, US News, Physician’s Weekly, Doximity, KevinMD, and
ASCO Connection. She was selected as a thought leader by Doximity and
completed a year as a Doximity writing fellow. She is a current Public
Voices fellow with the OpEd Project.
Twitter: @ShikhaJainMD
Instagram: @ShikhaJainMD
www.shikhajainmd.com
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