Embracing Your Value: Tools and Strategies for Optimizing Professional Growth and Development

CCO Medical Specialties Podcast

In this podcast episode, Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF, and Aja McCutchen, MD, discuss how women in gastroenterology (GI) can embrace and enhance their value. These inspiring GI medicine experts propose a practical formula that involves ongoing, careful self-reflection and asking yourself how your strengths, core values, and interests can be aligned with professional endeavors. In addition, self-advocacy and self-allyship can serve as harmonious tools to drive action and positive change.

Presenters:

Dr Anita Afzali is a Professor of Clinical Medicine, Interim Division Director of the Division of Digestive Diseases, Executive Vice Chair of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, and the Associate Chief Medical Officer of the UC Health system in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is also a Co-Founder of Scrubs & Heels.

Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF: consultant: AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda; provider of non-CME/CE services: AbbVie, Janssen, Pfizer, Takeda.

Dr Aja McCutchen is a Partner and Physician Executive at Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates, a division of United Digestive in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as Co-Chair at the Scrubs & Heels 2023 Leadership Summit.

Aja McCutchen, MD: consultant/advisor/speaker: Eli Lilly, Modify Health, Redhill Biopharm, Sanofi Regeneron, Takeda.

Episode outline:

• Understanding and establishing your own market value; bringing that to your own organization
• Consequences of being ill-equipped to pursue professional growth and development
• Advocating for the value you bring to the profession
• Negotiation as a form of self-allyship
• Negotiation categories to help support career success and protect work–life balance

Other program activities:

• Full Program: Equipped and Empowered: Thriving as Women in GI
• Podcast 1: Finding Your Friendtors: Mentors, Sponsors, and Allies
• Podcast 3: Being Your Full Self: Pursuing Work–Life Balance
• ClinicalThought: Expert Commentary on Thriving as Women in GI

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