Women are underrepresented in the field of academic surgery, but women surgeons are earning a disproportionate share of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, a new study has found.
Women make up 19% of surgery faculty at academic health systems, but held 26.4% of prestigious "R01" grants in place at surgery departments as of October 2018, the researchers found.
"Female surgeon-scientists are underrepresented within academic surgery, but hold a greater than anticipated proportion of NIH funding," said researcher Dr. Shayna L. Showalter, a breast surgical oncologist at UVA Health and the UVA Cancer Center. "This means that female surgeon-scientists are a crucial component of future surgical research."
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