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; COVID-19; physician well-being; weight bias; and fertility and family building.

APPEARANCES

4 Doctors Share Stories From Coronavirus Battle

Diary of a Covid-19 Doctor: 14 Days in a NYC Hospital

The mental health battle faced by healthcare workers

Who Runs The World? Apparently This Guy. Meet Reference Man

Deadly
Surge
Warning

More women turn to egg freezing to pause their biological clock

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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

I’ve Treated COVID Patients Across the Country—Healthcare Workers Are Still Struggling to Cope

Why Doctors are Posing in Swimwear on Social Media

Sexual Harassment is Still the Norm in Health Care

The Problem with Comparing Healthcare Workers to Soldiers on Memorial Day

Healthcare Workers Aren’t Just “Heroes.” We’re Also Scared and Exposed

I Spent My Fertile Years Training to be a Surgeon. Now, It Might be Too Late for Me to Have a Baby

I am an Angry Woman. From Workplace Bias to Sexist Politics, We Have a Lot to be Angry About

Patients Get Better Care From Doctors Who Are Women. But Sexism Persists in Medicine

See Other Writing

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 Levey, 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

See Where U.S. Intensive Care Units Are Filling Up

A Medical Career, at a Cost: Infertility

Doctors on Life Sup port

The Grueling
Life of an
American Surgeon

PPE ‘designed for women’ needed on frontline

Medicine Has An
Implicit Bias
Problem

Sirens, Deaths and Grief Fray the Mental Health of Virus Doctors

Why Healthcare Professionals Need Yoga Now

See Other Features

MENTIONS

Essential California: Crowdsourcing how to get the COVID-19 vaccine

As Christmas Nears, Virus Experts Look for Lessons From Thanksgiving

COVID-19 Cases are Rising, but These High-Stakes Exams are In-Person Only

Female Physicians
Reject
“Good Enough”

I’m a Female Surgeon, I Feel Uncomfortable Telling girls They Can Be One, Too.

America’s
Heroism
Trap

#ShareTheMicNowMed is Highlighting Black Female Doctors

To Amplify Black Voices in Medicine, Non-Black Doctors Hand Over Twitter Accounts

Faculty Report Unchecked Harassment in School of Medicine

Female Surgeons Are Still Treated As Second Class Citizens

See Other Mentions

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 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

Front and Center: Self-Care

COVID-19 Experience with Dr. Arghavan Salle‪s‬

Dr. Salles, MD, PhD, Stanford School of Medicin‪e‬

Hot Topics in Surgery: Fertility and Family Planning

Burnout: The Crisis Plaguing Healthcare Workers

Arghavan Salles On Being Authenti‪c‬

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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

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