MEDIA
I am passionate about sharing my experiences and expertise with others. Whether as a doctor, a researcher, or a human, I love engaging with broad audiences in major media outlets, both in writing and on camera. I commonly speak and write about issues related to gender in the workplace, including implicit bias, microaggressions, and sexual harassment; physician well-being; weight bias; and fertility and family building.
APPEARANCES
- Featured on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, May 2022, What are the ramifications of overturning Roe v Wade?
- Featured on CBS News, January 2021, Deadly Surge Warning
- Featured on Dr. Mike, January 2021, Doctors React to Controversial Cosmo Cover
- Featured on Yahoo! Finance, January 2021, As WH Warns of New USA Covid Strain, if We Don’t Change Course ‘It Will Be Disastrous’: Doctor
- Featured on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, December 2020, Why 2020 Was Defined By Remarkable Women
- Featured on Newsy, July 2020, Discussing school opening, obesity, and racial disparities related to COVID
- Featured on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, June 2020, Who Runs The World? Apparently This Guy. Meet Reference Man.
- Video diaries for WIRED Magazine, May 2020, Cause and Control
- Featured on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, May 2020, Coronavirus: The Mental Health Battle Faced by Healthcare Workers
- Featured on NBC News, May 2020, Doctors Around the US Travel to Treat Coronavirus at New York Hospitals
- Featured on The Today Show, NBC, May 2020, 4 Traveling Doctors Share Stories From Coronavirus Battle
- Featured on The Kamla Show, April 2020, Women in STEM
- Featured on Newsy, April 2020, Discussing racial inequities and COVID
- Featured on Newsy, April 2020, Discussing shelter in place, the value of testing, and masks
- Featured on Newsy, April 2020, Discussing antibody testing and hydroxychloroquine
- Featured on local news, KMOV, February 2019, More and more women turn to egg freezing to pause their biological clocks. Segment won Mid-America Emmy Award for excellence in Health/Science Program Feature Segment
WRITING
- Published in STAT News, August 2025, We Surveyed Hundreds of Biomedical Researchers About the Instability in Federal Funding. Here’s What They Said
- Published in the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh News, March 2025, Perceptions vs Performance: #ILookLikeASurgeon 10 Years On
- Published in Ms. Magazine, November 2024, The Ripple Effects of Restricting Abortion Access
- Published in Ms. Magazine, October 2023, As the New York Adult Survivors Act Nears Expiration, Survivors of Dr. Robert Hadden are Left in the Dark
- Published in STAT News, May 2023, The Apparent Poisoning of Schoolgirls is Just One Part of Iran’s Health Crisis
- Published in PLOS Global Public Health, March 2023, International Women’s Day: We Can’t Wait 300 Years for Progress
- Published in MedPage Today, December 2022. We Cannot Rest Until Abortion Rights Are Restored. Co-authored with Morgan Levy, Shira Fishbach, and Vineet Arora.
- Published in Ms. Magazine, July 2022, Why the Fall of Roe Means You Might Not Be Able to Get Pregnant. Co-authored with Vineet Arora.
- Published in Ms. Magazine, June 2022, Access to Birth Control Is in Danger If Roe is Overturned. Co-authored with Amy Alspaugh.
- Published in MedPageToday, May 2022, Looming Roe Decision Increases Urgency for Scaling Up Abortion Training. Co-authored with Morgan Levy, Shira Fishbach, and Vineet Arora.
- Published in Ms. Magazine, April 2022, Physicians Have Abortions Too: Maintaining Access to Abortion Supports Women’s Careers. Co-authored with Morgan Levy and Vineet Arora.
- Published in the Washington Post, January 2022, Patients Get Better Care From Doctors Who Are Women. But Sexism Persists in Medicine. Co-authored with Anne Blaschke.
- Published in PLOS Global Public Health, December 2021, The Call of Duty: Supporting Abortion Rights
- Published in The Cancer Letter, June 2021, Let’s Stop Passing the Buck on Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine
- Published in Medscape, March 2021, Battle of the Sexes: Who Gives Better Medical Care
- Published in The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, January 2021, COVID Has Worsened Gender Disparities, Especially for Women of Color. Here’s What We Can Do Now To Turn The Tide.
- Published in Medscape, January 2021, Can ‘Big’ Be Healthy? Yes—and No.
- Published in Newsweek, September 2020, ‘I’ve Treated COVID Patients Across the Country—Healthcare Workers Are Still Struggling to Cope’
- Published in Scientific American, July 2020, Why Doctors are Posing in Swimwear on Social Media. Co-authored with Rena Malik.
- Published in Medscape, June 2020, How Racism Contributes to the Effects of SARS-CoV-2
- Published in Vox, May 2020, The Problem with Comparing Healthcare Workers to Soldiers on Memorial Day. Co-authored with Jessica Gold.
- Published in Medscape, May 2020, Volunteering During the Pandemic: What Doctors Need to Know
- Published in Vox, April 2020, Healthcare Workers Aren’t Just “Heroes.” We’re Also Scared and Exposed. Co-authored with Jessica Gold.
- Published in Scientific American, October 2019, Sexual Harassment is Still the Norm in Health Care
- Published in Medscape, September 2019, Fat Shaming is Just Bullying
- Published in Physician’s Weekly, July 2019, Gender Bias Narratives in Medicine
- Published in Medscape, July 2019, No, Smartphones Aren’t Making Med Students Less Dexterous.
- Published in TIME Magazine, January 2019, I Spent My Fertile Years Training to be a Surgeon. Now, it Might be Too Late for Me to Have a Baby
- Published in General Surgery News, December 2018, Improving Diversity, Inclusion in Medicine
- Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 2018, A Plea for Partnership and Change Regarding Gun Violence. Co-authored with Jessica Gold.
- Published in USA Today, October 2018, I am an Angry Woman. From Workplace Bias to Sexist Politics, We Have a Lot to be Angry About.
- Published in The Atlantic, January 2017, Fleeing Iran with a Young Daughter
FEATURES
- Featured in PBS documentary, June 2025, America’s Caregiving Crisis.
- Featured in STAT News, August 2024, Morning Rounds newsletter: She Wants to Teach PIs How to Stop Sexual Harassment. Do They Want to Learn? (note: this one does not have a link–just included here so it to avoid confusion since it’s on the page. It should be italicized, though)
- Featured in Healio, July 2024, Study to Assess Sexual Harassment Training in Medical Research Field
- Featured on Fox News Chicago, May 2024, Doctor and Social Media Influencer Speaks on TikTok Medical Misinformation
- Featured in the Daily Mail, April 2024, Stanford Doctor Warns of Horrific Trend That Sees Men Ejaculate Into Women’s Drinks: ‘New Fear Unlocked’
- Featured in the Stanford Department of Medicine Annual Report, October 2023, From Bariatric Surgeon to Accidental Activist
- Featured in Healio, September 2023, Women in Medicine Month: 7 Women Breaking Barriers in Oncology
- Featured in Stanford Department of Medicine News, The Dobbs Decision: Looking Back and Moving Forward
- Featured in Women’s Health In Focus at NIH, June 2023, the NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health Newsletter, Scientist Spotlight
- Featured in Medscape, January 2023, Female doctors have higher infertility rates and riskier pregnancies: what can be done?
- Featured in Stanford’s SCOPE Blog, November 2022, Stanford Medicine-led Study Aims to ‘STOP’ Sexual Harassment in Biomedical Research
- Featured in Yale Internal Medicine, October 2022, Sexual Harassment: How Do We Decrease it in the Biomedical Field?
- Featured on Doctor Radio, September 2022, Sirius XM
- Featured on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, May 2022, What are the Ramifications of Overturning Roe v Wade?
- Featured on KQED’s Morning Edition, May 2022, Is California Prepared for an Influx of Patients Seeking Abortion Care?
- Research featured in Harvard Business Review, March 2022, Research Roundup: How Women Experience the Workplace Today
- Featured in The New York Times, September 2021, A Medical Career, at a Cost: Infertility
- Featured on KQED Forum, April 2021, Dating, Love, and Sex in a Post-Pandemic World
- Featured on CBS News, January 2021, Deadly Surge Warning
- Featured on Dr. Mike, January 2021, Doctors React to Controversial Cosmo Cover
- Featured on KQED, January 2021, Menlo Park Doctor on California’s Slow, Confusing Vaccine Rollout
- Featured in Stat News, January 2021, ‘Just Utter Chaos’: A Twitter Thread Offers a Window Into the Frustrating Search for COVID-19 Shots
- Featured on Yahoo! Finance, January 2021, As WH Warns of New USA Covid Strain, if We Don’t Change Course ‘It Will Be Disastrous’: Doctor
- Featured in The New York Times, December 2020, See Where U.S. Intensive Care Units are Filling Up
- Featured on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, December 2020, Why 2020 was defined by remarkable women
- Featured in Ability Magazine, October 2020, Challenges and Chances: Navigating the US Healthcare System with a Chronic Condition
- Featured on Newsy, July 2020, discussing school opening, obesity, and racial disparities related to COVID
- Featured on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, June 2020, Who Runs The World? Apparently This Guy. Meet reference Man.
- Featured in Stanford Medicine’s SCOPE Blog, June 2020, COVID-19 in New York: Stanford Volunteers Provide Care, Support
- Featured in The COVID-19 Visual Project, June 2020
- Video diaries for WIRED Magazine, May 2020, Cause and Control
- Featured on Hoopers Meet Heroes from CloseUp360, May 2020, LA Sparks’ Chiney Ogwumike and Stanford’s Dr. Arghavan Salles
- Featured on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, May 2020, Coronavirus: The Mental Health Battle Faced by Healthcare Workers
- Featured on NBC News, May 2020, Doctors Around the US Travel to Treat Coronavirus at New York Hospitals
- Featured on The Today Show, NBC, May 2020, 4 Traveling Doctors Share Stories From Coronavirus Battle
- Featured in BBC News, April 2020, PPE ‘Designed For Women’ Needed on Frontline
- Featured in Bloomberg News, April 2020, Sirens, Deaths and Grief Fray the Mental Health of Virus Doctors
- Featured in Medscape and MDEdge, April 2020, Volunteer Surgeon Describes Working at a New York Hospital
- Featured on The Kamla Show, April 2020, Women in STEM
- Featured on Newsy, April 2020, discussing racial inequities and COVID
- Featured on Newsy, April 2020, discussing shelter in place, the value of testing, and masks
- Featured on Newsy, April 2020, discussing antibody testing and hydroxychloroquine
- Featured in Yoga Journal, April 2020, Why Healthcare Professionals Need Yoga Now More Than Ever
- Featured in Stanford Medicine’s SCOPE Blog, April 2020, Fitness Challenge, Meals, and More: Stanford Medicine During Social Distancing
- Featured in Stanford Medicine’s SCOPE Blog, March 2020, Identifying and Addressing Gender Bias in Healthcare
- Featured in Reuters Health, August 2019, Medical Professionals of Both Genders Link the Word “Career” with Men
- Featured in Medical Xpress, July 2019, Health Care Professionals Exhibit Gender Bias
- Featured in Forbes, July 2019, Medicine has an Implicit bias Problem, What Needs to be Done
- Featured in Medscape, July 2019, Gender Bias in Medicine Still Common
- Featured in Daily Mail, July 2019, Doctors are Still Sexist: They Believe Men are the Best Surgeons and Women are Better as Family Physicians
- Featured on local news, KMOV, February 2019, More and More Women Turn to Egg Freezing to Pause Their Biological Clocks. Segment won Mid-America Emmy Award for excellence in Health/Science Program Feature Segment
- Featured in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 2019, Five St. Louis Medical Students Launch 500 Women in Medicine Advocacy Project
- Photo featured in Becker’s Hospital Review, September 2016, 10 Powerful healthcare photographs
- Featured in Stanford Medicine SCOPE Blog, November 2015, Stereotype Perception Linked to Psychological Health in Female Surgeons
- Featured in Reuters Health, October 2015, Stereotyping Makes Life Harder for Young Female Surgeons
- Featured in TIME Magazine, September 2015, Doctors on Life Support.
- Featured in TIME Magazine, September 2015, The Grueling Life of a Trauma Surgeon
- Featured in PBS documentary, June 2025, America’s Caregiving Crisis.
- Featured in STAT News, August 2024, Morning Rounds newsletter: She Wants to Teach PIs How to Stop Sexual Harassment. Do They Want to Learn? (note: this one does not have a link–just included here so it to avoid confusion since it’s on the page. It should be italicized, though)
- Featured in Healio, July 2024, Study to Assess Sexual Harassment Training in Medical Research Field
- Featured on Fox News Chicago, May 2024, Doctor and Social Media Influencer Speaks on TikTok Medical Misinformation
- Featured in the Daily Mail, April 2024, Stanford Doctor Warns of Horrific Trend That Sees Men Ejaculate Into Women’s Drinks: ‘New Fear Unlocked’
- Featured in the Stanford Department of Medicine Annual Report, October 2023, From Bariatric Surgeon to Accidental Activist
- Featured in Healio, September 2023, Women in Medicine Month: 7 Women Breaking Barriers in Oncology
MENTIONS
- Quoted in Nature, September 2025, Will the Public Support Basic Science? A New Non-Profit Aims to Find Out
- Quoted in STAT News, February 2025, Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words, unnerving researchers
- Quoted in STAT News, February 2025, CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored
- Quoted in MedPage Today, November 2024, Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees
- Quoted in MedPage Today, October 2024, Best VP Debate Memes
- Quoted in MedPage Today, September 2024, Residency Tougher than College Football?
- Quoted on AL.com and reckon news, July 2024, The Secret Service Agent Who Protected Trump is Now the Target of a Vicious Body-shaming Campaign
- Quoted in PinkNews, June 2024, People Horrified After Queer Woman Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation Hours after Giving Birth
- Quoted in MedPage Today, May 2024, Why Are Docs Still on X?
- Quoted in Baller Alert, May 2024, Canadian Writer Slammed Online for “Disguising” Himself as a Black Man for New Book on Racism in America
- Quoted in Ars Technica, May 2024, Bumble Apologizes for Ads Shaming Women into Sex
- Quoted in Yahoo News, April 2024, Do women make better physicians? New study finds patients with female doctors have a lower risk of death and hospital readmission rates.
- Quoted in the New York Post, April 2024, People treated by female doctors live longer: study
- Quoted in Arab Times, April 2024, Female doctors deliver better patient outcomes, study suggests
- Quoted in Medical News Today, April 2024, People treated by female doctors tend to have better health outcomes, study finds
- Research featured in the Washington Post 2024, The Medical Field is a Tough One for Prospective Parents, Study Finds
- Quoted in The Nation, November 2023, Why Don’t Americans Believe in Science?
- Quoted in Medscape, September 2023, Sushi and Pregnancy; Which Vax are You? ‘Scariest’ Echo Ever and Doc on McConnell’s Freeze-Up; Medical Blackmails Xmas for Nursing Students
- Quoted in Insider and Yahoo, July 2023, People are Calling Out the Lack of Diversity at a Dinner Party Attended by the Likes of Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, and Adam Scott
- Quoted in Business Insider Africa, July 2023, Men Have Been Trashing Margot Robbie’s Looks, Calling Her ‘Mid”—Prompting a Backlash on TikTok
- Quoted in The Lancet, July 2023, US Affirmative Action Ruling May Harm Health Equity
- Quoted in Healio’s Women in Oncology, June 2023, Family-building Difficulties Among Female Physicians, Trainees ‘Not Hyperbole’
- Quoted in MedPageToday, June 2023, Bebe Rexha’s Wound Care; ‘The System Is Broken’; Finding Nemo in a Blood Drain
- Quoted in Medscape, February 2023, Female Physicians Have Higher Infertility Rates and Riskier Pregnancies: What Can Be Done?
- Quoted in The Guardian, August 2022, ‘Most have thrown their hands up’: Has the US Forgotten About COVID?
- Quoted by the AAMC , April 2022, Oversized and Overlooked: Women Surgeons Struggle to Find Equipment That Fits
- Quoted in The Daily Beast, August 2021, Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen Resigns Amid Cuomo Fallout
- Quoted in Forbes, July 2021, Rob Schneider’s Tweets about Covid-19 Vaccines Got These Responses
- Quoted in Medscape, April 2021, FSMB Targets Physician Sexual Misconduct
- Quoted in Teen Vogue, April 2021, Getting a COVID Vaccine Based on BMI is Exciting and Complicated at the Same Time
- Quoted in Medscape, March 2021, Sexual, Racial Microaggressions Common in Surgery and Anesthesiology
- Quoted in The Daily Beast, March 2021, Members of Time’s Up Group Resign En Masse Over ‘TikTok Doc’ Harassment Scandal
- Quoted in STAT News, March 2021, At Least 4 Founders of Time’s Up Healthcare Resign as Organization Mum on Sexual Harassment Suit
- Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, January 2021, Essential California: Crowdsourcing How to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine
- Quoted in WRCBTV, January 2021, ‘My 81-year-old Dad Would Never Figure This Out:’ Inside American’s Vaccine Sign-up Process
- Quoted in the New York Times, December 2020, As Christmas Nears, Virus Experts Look for Lessons From Thanksgiving
- Quoted in USA Today, July 2020, Want to be a Doctor? A Lawyer? COVID-19 Cases are Rising, but These High-Stakes Exams are In-Person Only
- Quoted in Medscape, July 2020, Group Asks Docs, Students to Help Waive MCAT Amid Pandemic
- Quoted in Forbes, July 2020, Watching Hamilton Will Give You What You So Desperately Need this Pandemic: Hope
- Quoted in Medscape, July 2020, Sexist Description in Surgical Textbook Highlights Bias in Medicine, Physicians Say
- Quoted in Shape Magazine, June 2020, #ShareTheMicNowMed is Highlighting Black Female Doctors
- Quoted in NBC News and Today, June 2020, To Amplify Black Voices in Medicine, Non-Black Doctors Hand Over Their Twitter Accounts
- Quoted in Medscape, June 2020, Hashtag Medicine: #ShareTheMicNowMed Highlights Black Female Physicians on Social Media
- Quoted in The Stanford Daily, June 2020, ‘Destroyed My Career’: Faculty Report Unchecked Harassment in School of Medicine
- Quoted in Medscape, June 2020, A Call for Better Death Disclosure Training During COVID-19
- Mentioned in Virtual Strategy Magazine, April 2020, ABIM Foundation Recognizes Top Articles on Medical Professionalism
- Mentioned in Slate, April 2020, America’s Heroism Trap
- Quoted in Scientific American, January 2020, Female Surgeons Are Still Treated As Second Class Citizens
- Quoted in MedPage Today, December 2019, Critics Bash Story on “Work-Life Balance” in Medicine
- Quoted in Medscape, November 2019, Male Clinicians Miss Microaggressions Their Female Peers Notice
- Quoted in Forbes, August 2019, Female Physicians Reject “Good Enough”
- Mentioned in MedPage Today, August 2019, Critics Bash Story on ‘Work-Life Balance’ in Medicine
- Quoted in Dermatology Advisor, August 2019, Raising Awareness of Implicit Gender Bias Among Healthcare Professionals
- Mentioned in Endocrinology Advisor, July 2019, Healthcare Professionals Exhibit Implicit, Explicit Gender Bias
- Mentioned in Washington Post, July 2019, I’m a Female Surgeon, I Feel Uncomfortable Telling Girls They Can be One, Too.
- Mentioned in Becker’s Hospital Review, July 2019, Implicit Gender Bias Present in Surgical Field, Study Finds
- Mentioned in Medical Bag, July 2019, Raising Awareness of Implicit Gender Bias Within Healthcare Professionals
- Quoted in General Surgery News, July 2019, New Group Aims to Give Voice to Women in Medicine
- Quoted in Forbes, June 2019, NIH Director: No More ‘Manels’, How to Make Panels More Diverse
- Quoted in Medscape, June 2019, A CV of Failures Offers Path Out of Perfectionism
- Quoted in MedPage Today, May 2019, MedPage Hosts #MeToo Twitter Chat
- Quoted in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News, Clinical Oncology News, March 2019, New Group Aims to Give Voice to Women in Medicine
- Quoted in Forbes, December 2018, What This New 500 Women in Medicine Initiative Aims to Do
- Quoted in Forbes, October 2018, What Happens After Bariatric Surgery Makes a Difference
- Quoted in General Surgery News, October 2018, Another All-Male Conference Panel?
- Quoted in General Surgery News, February 2018, Surgeons (Women and Men) Say It’s Time to Close Surgery’s Gender Gap
- Quoted in San Francisco Magazine, December 2014, A Trust Fall a Day…
PODCASTS
- Why Are There Still so Few Female Surgeons?, January 2023, recorded for Freakonomics, MD
- The Second Iranian Revolution, January 2023, recorded for The House of Pod
- Cultural Awareness Series: Representation of Women in Medicine and Overcoming Barriers of Advancement, April 2022, recorded for Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Gender Bias in Medicine, March 2022, recorded for It’s Good to See You with Dr. Rupa Wong
- The Silent Struggle of Women Physicians, October 2021, recorded for Think Medium’s Her Story
- Burnout: The Crisis Plaguing Healthcare Workers, April 2021, recorded for NPR’s Short Wave
- Gender Equity in Medicine, April 2021, recorded for The House of Pod
- Self-Care, November 2020, recorded for Front and Center with Lisa Leslie and Chiney Ogwumike
- On Hopelessness, October 2020, Trusting What We Can’t See, recorded for Genius Podcast
- Stereotype Threat, Gender Equity, and Working on the Frontlines of COVID-19, October 2020, recorded for Oncology Overdrive
- Gender Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity in Medicine, June 2020, recorded for Outspoken Oncology Podcast
- Diversity and Gender Equity, May 2020, recorded for The House of Pod
- May 2020, recorded for 1:2:1
- COVID-19 Experience with Dr. Arghavan Salles, May 2020, recorded for the Association of Women Surgeons
- May 2020, recorded for The Curiosity Hour
- Physician Well-being, January 2020, recorded for #DocsWithDisabilities
- Bariatric Surgery for Primary Care, December 2019, recorded for Hippo Education
- Hot Topics in Surgery: Fertility and Family Planning, September 2019, recorded for Behind the Knife
- A Frank Discussion About Ending Sexual Harassment in Medicine, August 2019, interviewed by Naftali Kaminski for From the Trenches from the American Thoracic Society
- Assessing the Extent of Implicit, Explicit Gender Bias in Healthcare Careers, July 2019, interviewed for the American Journal of Managed Care
- Authenticity, May 2019, interviewed by Mark Shapiro for Explore the Space
- Bariatric Surgery, May 2019, interviewed by Steve Olivas for The Commute podcast.
- Foregut and Bariatric Surgery mock orals podcast, July 2018, recorded for Behind the Knife