Nov 11, 2018
Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.
Episode Guest: Dara Kass
Dara Kass, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in NYC.
After completing her residency at SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital, she served as faculty of Staten Island University Hospital, where she facilitated the start of their EM residency program. She previously served as the director of undergraduate medical education at NYU. As director, she introduced longitudinal career advising, innovative educational modalities, and numerous clinical experiences.
She is the founder of FemInEM, an organization dedicated to the achievement of gender equity in emergency medicine. FemInEM serves as an open access resource for women in EM, a community focused on career development, physician support, and seeing women in medicine thrive. What began as a blog is now a movement, a multi-faceted community comprised women in medicine all over the world.
The FemInEM Idea Exchange, the organization's first conference, was held in 2017 and featured inspiring international speakers. The sold-out gathering was comprised of attendees from four different continents. The 2018 FemInEM Idea Exchange which took place in October of 2018 at The New York Academy of Emergency Medicine in New York City.
Dara Kass, MD FACEP
CEO and Editor-in-Chief, FemInEM
Listen to hear more about Dara's story:
- Supporting Women in the Medical Field with FemInEM.
- Gender Equality, Social Media and the Workplace.
- The Balancing Act and picking your battles.
- Going through a liver donation for your child.
- Raising three children with three different personalities.
- Family Time vs Mom & Dad Time.
- Teaching to Listen.
- Staying organized and balanced from day to day as Mom and in the workplace.
Links mentioned:
@darakass
Twitter: @feminemtweets
Instagram: @feminemgram
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