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Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey

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...

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Autores principales: 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
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9426639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36052173
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2022.10506
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author 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
author_facet 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
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-94266392022-08-31 Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey 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 Transpl Int Health Archive 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9426639/ /pubmed/36052173 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2022.10506 Text en Copyright © 2022 Aguilera, Andacoglu, Francoz, Berlakovich, Pai, Adelmann, Ghosh, Lunsford, Montenovo, Mrzljak, Scalera, Xie, Becchetti, Berenguer and Selzner. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Health Archive
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
Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey
title Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey
title_full Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey
title_fullStr Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey
title_full_unstemmed Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey
title_short Gender and Racial Disparity Among Liver Transplantation Professionals: Report of a Global Survey
title_sort gender and racial disparity among liver transplantation professionals: report of a global survey
topic Health Archive
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9426639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36052173
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2022.10506
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