Voices Unheard Melissa Blaker and Pringl Miller

Dr. Imani McElroy is a general Surgery resident at MGH. Since the last time we spoke with her, she has completed a master’s in public health at Harvard Chan. She plans to spend this academic year working on research projects with a focus on disparities in health care delivery, complex aortic disease, and implementation sciences. Dr. Nikhil Panda, known as Panda, is a rising 4th year general surgery resident who will be joining the MGH 4+3 cardiothoracic program. Originally from Chattanoo...

Red Hoffman is an acute care surgeon in Asheville, North Carolina who is board certified in general surgery, surgical critical care and hospice and palliative medicine. She serves as the surgical clerkship director for the University of North Carolina Asheville campus and also works as an associate hospice medical director for CarePartners Hospice. She is a writer whose work has been featured in JAMA, General Surgery News, KevinMD and Doximity. She is the creator and host of...

Dr. Darilyn Moyer is a board-certified Internist and Infectious Disease specialist who has been a FACP since 2007. She has served on the Board of Regents, chaired American College of Physicians’ (ACP) Board of Governors and served as Governor of ACP’s Pennyslvania SE Chapter. Dr. Moyer’s research & scholarly activities are in the areas of medical education, high value care, patient safety, and professionalism. In 2016, Dr. Moyer was the first woman to serve as the ACP Executive Vice Presi...

Dr. Michaela West MD, PhD is a board certified general and critical care surgeon and is a fellow of the ACS and College of Critical Care Medicine. She currently is the Trauma Research Chair at North Memorial Health Care, a Level 1 trauma center in Minneapolis, MN, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. She holds the distinction of Emeritus Professor at UCSF and is a founding member of Times Up Healthcare. In this episode, we discuss the challeng...

Dr. Natasha Anushri Anandaraja was born in New Zealand where she earned her medical degree. She worked with international NGOs on child health and disaster relief before coming to New York City in 2002, where she trained in Pediatrics, Global Health and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She was the Director of Global Health Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from 2008 until 2015, and then the Director of the Office of Wellbeing and Resil...

Imani McElroy is a general surgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is in the first two years of the research component of her residency, during which she’s completing an MPH and doing outcomes research in trauma and vascular surgery. She plans to pursue specialized training in Vascular Surgery and ultimately return home to California to care for underserved communities. In this episode, Dr. McElroy discusses why only 0.79% of academic surgeons are black women, as well a...