As pressures to maximize research funding grow, biomedical research funders are
increasingly tasked with demonstrating the long-term and real-world impacts of their funded …

Background Over time, NIH funding has become increasingly competitive. In addition,
academic surgeons' research competes with time required for patient care, operating, and …

Men continue to outperform women in obtaining funding through research grants globally, in
both science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and social science, in …

Methods A retrospective review of articles published in the 3 highest impact plastic surgery
journals published from 2010 to 2020 was conducted. Trends with female senior authorship …

There is a significant gender gap in research conducted by women in plastic surgery.
Previous work has not explored female authorship trends in cosmetic plastic surgery. We …

In the mid-nineteenth century small numbers of women began entering the professions.
These numbers increased slowly but steadily through the beginning of the twentieth century …

The impact of surgical research is far reaching, necessitating the importance of ongoing
changes in this large and heterogeneous community. Given the intensity and duration of …

The day Dr. Patricia Numann posted a notice inviting all woman surgeons to a breakfast in
San Francisco at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress in 1981, she …

METHODS Pubmed records, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Reporter data, and SCOPUS
h-index were acquired for all scholarship (SCH) awardees from 2002 to 2021 (n= 20) and all …

The Association of Women Surgeons was formed in 1981, and has grown into an
international organization dedicated to the professional development of women surgeons …