Aguilera, Victoria; Andacoglu, Oya; Francoz, Claire; Berlakovich, Gabriela; Pai, Sher-Lu; Adelmann, Dieter; Ghosh, Simantika; Lunsford, Keri E; Montenovo, Martin; Mrzljak, Anna; Scalera, Irene; Xie, Qinfen; Becchetti, Chiara; Berenguer, Marina; Selzner, Nazia (2022). Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey. Transplant international, 35(10506), p. 10506. Wiley 10.3389/ti.2022.10506
|
Text
ti-35-10506.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution (CC-BY). Download (1MB) | Preview |
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are fundamental principles. Little is known about the pattern of practice and perceptions of EDI among liver transplant (LT) providers. International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) EDI Committee survey around topics related to discrimination, mentorship, and gender. Answers were collected and analyzed anonymously. Worldwide female leadership was also queried via publicly available data. The survey was e-mailed to 1312 ILTS members, 199 responses (40.7% female) were collected from 38 countries (15.2% response rate). Almost half were surgeons (45.7%), 27.6% hepatologists and 26.6% anesthetists. Among 856 LT programs worldwide, 8.2% of leadership positions were held by females, and 22% of division chiefs were female across all specialties. Sixty-eight of respondents (34.7%) reported some form of discrimination during training or at their current position, presumably related to gender/sexual orientation (20.6%), race/country of origin (25.2%) and others (7.1%). Less than half (43.7%) received mentorship when discrimination occurred. An association between female responses and discrimination, differences in compensation, and job promotion was observed. This survey reveals alarmingly high rate of experience with racial and gender disparity, lack of mentorship, and very low rates of female leadership in the LT field and calls to action to equity and inclusion.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
|---|---|
Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine |
UniBE Contributor: |
Becchetti, Chiara |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1432-2277 |
Publisher: |
Wiley |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
05 Sep 2022 15:15 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:23 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3389/ti.2022.10506 |
PubMed ID: |
36052173 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
gender equality leadership liver transplantation racial disparity women physicians |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/172652 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/172652 |
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit item |