Heather Logghe is a surgical research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She started the viral movement #ILookLikeASurgeon, a hashtag that reached over one hundred million people on Twitter.
Heather Logghe | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco |
| Employer(s) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Early life and education
editLogghe graduated from the University of California in 2011.[1] She won the 2012 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women.[2]
Career
editLogghe began a surgical residency at the University of North Carolina and took two years off for research.[3] She studied laparoscopic surgeries, and identified that laparoscopic shunt revision can avoid the complications of open revision.[4] Logghe started the viral Twitter campaign #ILookLikeASurgeon whilst a preliminary surgical resident in October 2015.[5][6] Logghe was inspired by the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign.[7] The social media posts generated hundreds of millions of impressions, including the American College of Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons as well as media outlets.[8][9][10][11][12][13] In 2017 the campaign was selected as the cover of The New Yorker.[13]
She has since published peer-reviewed papers on the evolving image of surgeons, as well as providing guidelines for surgeons' social media use.[14][15][16] She believes Twitter can be a useful tool in advancing academic surgery.[17][18][19] In 2017 she joined Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as a Surgical Research Fellow, looking at how social media can be used to disseminate research, medical education and patient care.[20][21][22]
References
edit- ^ "Dr. Heather Logghe, MD - Chapel Hill, NC - General Surgery | Healthgrades.com". healthgrades.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "Chancellor Presents 2012 Award for Advancement of Women to Three". UC San Francisco. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "#ILookLikeASurgeon raises awareness about women in medicine". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ Heather, Logghe; John, Maa; Michael, Mcdermott; Michael, Oh; Jonathan, Carter. "Laparoscopic Shunt Revision Avoids Many Complications of Open Shunt Revision and Has Outcomes Similar to First-time Shunt Placement". ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "Meet the female surgeons who are calling for a change in medical culture". Upworthy. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "Blazing a trail for women in medicine: Ode to Elizabeth Blackwell - Dr. Heather Furnas, Plastic Surgeon - Womanthology". Womanthology. 2016-07-07. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "Resident News — Department of Surgery - UNC School of Medicine". med.unc.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ Lee, Bruce Y. "How Media Portrayal Affects Women, And What Geena Davis Is Doing About It". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "What do you think a surgeon looks like? These women are hoping to change that". Boston.com. 2015-08-14. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "The #ILookLikeASurgeon Hashtag Movement Is Here at Stony Brook | Stony Brook University School of Medicine". medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "What does a surgeon look like? Professor helps spur national social media movement". Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ Hughes, Kathryn A. (2015-11-01). "#ILookLikeASurgeon goes viral: How it happened". Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ a b Ault, Alicia (April 20, 2017). "#ILookLikeASurgeon Gets New Boost From New Yorker Cover". Medscape. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ Logghe, H. J.; Rouse, T.; Beekley, A.; Aggarwal, R. (2018-05-01). "The Evolving Surgeon Image". AMA Journal of Ethics. 20 (5). Heather J. Logghe, Tyler Rouse, Alec Beekley, and Rajesh Aggarwal: 492–500. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.mhst1-1805. ISSN 2376-6980. PMID 29763396.
- ^ Logghe, Heather J.; Boeck, Marissa A.; Gusani, Niraj J.; Hardaway, John C.; Hughes, Kathryn A.; Mouawad, Nicolas J.; Kulaylat, Afif N.; Hoffman, Rebecca L.; Turner, Patricia (March 2018). "Best Practices for Surgeons' Social Media Use: Statement of the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons". Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 226 (3): 317–327. doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.11.022. ISSN 1072-7515. PMID 29224795.
- ^ Logghe, Heather J.; Boeck, Marissa A.; Atallah, Sam B. (December 2016). "Decoding Twitter: Understanding the History, Instruments, and Techniques for Success". Annals of Surgery. 264 (6): 904–908. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000001824. ISSN 0003-4932. PMID 27322186. S2CID 38892223.
- ^ Logghe, Heather J.; Selby, Luke V.; Boeck, Marissa A.; Stamp, Nikki L.; Chuen, Jason; Jones, Christian (June 2018). "The academic tweet: Twitter as a tool to advance academic surgery". The Journal of Surgical Research. 226: viii–xii. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2018.03.049. hdl:11343/212247. ISSN 1095-8673. PMID 29622401. S2CID 4881831.
- ^ "Beyond the Surgeons' Lounge: Leveraging Twitter for Networking and Career Advancement - AANS Neurosurgeon". AANS Neurosurgeon. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "Leadership Initiatives". American College of Surgeons. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ "Grand Rounds - Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University - Thomas Jefferson University". jefferson.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-04.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Szekely, Peter. "For U.S. birthday, life, liberty and the pursuit of hot dogs". U.S. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
- ^ Frangou, Christina (December 7, 2017). "Surgeons Address Intimate Partner Violence Head-on". GeneralSurgeryNews.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.