Yale Women’s Housestaff Organization (YWHO)
Welcome!
Established in 2019, the Yale Women’s Housestaff Organization (YWHO) serves residents and fellows across specialties to improve the well-being and advancement of self-identified women at Yale. We create a community for residents and fellows to share their experiences as women physicians and advocate for issues that can specifically affect their training and careers. The YWHO also collaborates with other women and minority organizations on shared issues for women residents and faculty. The organization is funded by the Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME).
For the 2021-2021 academic year, the YWHO has created a needs assessment to better understand the experiences of Yale’s women house staff. The organization will be focusing on several activities including supporting mothers in residency, enhancing mentoring and networking opportunities for residents and fellows, organizing leadership workshops to help Yale women house staff excel in their careers.
Join us! There are many opportunities to get involved in leading the organization. Please email the executive board members if you are interested in helping run events or projects!
Executive Board
Advisors
William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery; Chair, Surgery; Associate Cancer Center Director, Surgical Services
Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA, is the chair of the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine and chief of surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital, effective February 1, 2018. Watch a video with Dr. Nita Ahuja>>Dr. Ahuja obtained her medical education at the Duke University School of Medicine and her training in general surgery at Johns Hopkins. She completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at Johns Hopkins focused on hepatobiliary malignancies and joined the faculty in 2003. Dr Ahuja's surgical specialization is in management of sarcomas and complex gastrointestinal cancers, including gastric, rectal, and pancreatic cancers. She has developed an international reputation for management of peritoneal cancer metastases with cytoreduction and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy, which attracts patients from around the world. She is a strong advocate for working with various disciplines to... Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Marna P. Borgstrom, ’79 M.P.H. began her career at Yale New Haven Hospital over 37 years ago. Her varied roles have taken her form post-graduate fellowship, to various staff and management roles, to her promotion in 1994 to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Office at Yale New Haven Hospital. In 2005, she assumed the position of CEO of Yale New Haven Hospital & CEO of Yale New Haven Health and now serves as the CEO of both organizations. Marna chairs the boards of the Healthcare Institute and the Coalition to Protect America’s Healthcare and is the past chair of Vizient, a Dallas, Texas-based healthcare company. She serves on several other boards including the Connecticut Hospital Association and New Haven Promise. Marna has been the recipient of several awards recognizing her advocacy and community involvement including the AHA Grassroots... Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Digestive Diseases); Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Office of the Provost; Emeritus Director of Resident/Fellow Well-being, Graduate Medical Education
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology); Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education (YSM)
Following graduation from medical school at Duke University, I completed internal medicine residency, nephrology and hypertension fellowships at Yale-New Haven Hospital/Yale School of Medicine. I then joined the full-time faculty in the Department of Medicine and quickly became involved in medical education which along with clinical hypertension management has been the focus of my academic career. Education leadership roles include serving as Program Director of the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency for 24 years, Inaugural Co-Director of the Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program for 10 years, Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine, and since 2016, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Medical Education, at Yale School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital. I have collaborated on numerous educational innovation projects... Assistant Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Resources
Parental Leave Policy
All Yale House Staff are eligible to take paid parental leave as a part of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Lactation Rooms
We are pleased to announce that resident-only lactation rooms have been opened in the Hunter Building. You can use these rooms on a first come, first served basis.
Parenthood in Residency
Balancing medical training with family planning can feel like an impossible task. One mission of YWHO is to help support housestaff parents (or prospective parents) during a demanding period of their career. YWHO hopes to clarify and create policies regarding lactation at work, parental leave, and call responsibilities that make it easier for housestaff to understand their available resources and better inform their family planning efforts.
YWHO has created a WhatsApp group for Yale housestaff parents (or prospective parents) to share tips, concerns and resources. You can join the WhatsApp group here.
To become a part of YWHO’s parenthood subcommittee, please email sofia.noori@yale.edu.