Professor of surgery Shipra Arya, MD, developed a screening tool that assesses frailty in older patients facing surgery, but it didn’t gain widespread visibility until she enrolled in the Stanford Medicine Leadership Academy.

As a participant in the 18-month training program, she had guidance in moving her tool — a 14-item questionnaire that helps doctors assess whether patients have the strength to recover from surgery — from an individual project to a national platform. Today, it’s on its way to being the foremost frailty assessment tool for surgical patients across the country.

Several initiatives at Stanford Medicine, including the academy, are designed to help women advance into leadership positions. Progress from these efforts is beginning to yield outcomes: Stanford Medicine has about twice the proportion of female department heads and senior associate deans as the national average.

Read more at: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/08/29/stanford-medicine-making-strides-in-advancing-women-leaders/